Difference Engine’s flowers are not as stately as roses, and they certainly have no thorns to add an interesting dichotomy of beauty and masochism to the mix.
Self Made Maniac can be listened to, absently hummed, or dissected by a music reviewer who’d rip the stuffing out of it if he could only find a loose thread.
With tunes that rise and fall in pigtail-bouncing chromatic progressions, this music lends itself to being sung in loud, easy harmonies, cruising down I-95.
Proving that Beck doesn’t have a monopoly on eclectic compositions, Jamie Di Salvio enlisted the aid of 20 Montreal-based musicians for this offbeat offering.
Unwound breaks no new ground, sticking to their tried and true formula of Big Black-like guitar histrionics, tribal bass, and wonderfully off-kilter drum beats.