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Do you like artsy-fartsy indie rock? Are you now or have you ever been a grindcore fan? If your answer to both is yes, well, have I got a record for you: The new Lightning Bolt, Earthly Delights, is audacious, brutal, absurd, clever, weird, impenetrable, bizarre—in other words, totally awesome. No, it’s not quite as wrenching or outlandish as, say, The Locust or The Flying Luttenbachers, but as art-noise goes, it’s tough to beat. Sample tracks here! Lala members can stream the whole thing.
Okay, I“m half deaf on account of my Les Paul Cutom/Hiwatt combo; I like loud angry music. But I have no idea what to make of that first track. I guess I am officially middle-aged. Which is fine, because I’m proceeding full speed ahead with my midlife crisis. No convertible or age-inappropriate blonde, but there will be fish.
— Tony Comstock · Oct 17, 12:05 AM · #
Speaking of noise rock, it appears that Pissed Jeans and Rusted Shut played at least one show together. How long had they been planning that joke, huh?
— Matt Frost · Oct 17, 03:11 AM · #
Oh come on, Suderman, your ridiculous heavy metal beard is not fooling anyone. You like girly girl music. There’s nothing wrong with that (other than the pawn of Satan part). As Sid Barrett once said: “To thine ownself be…. hey, do your fingers look like eels too?”
— cw · Oct 17, 03:14 AM · #
As awesome as their albums are, they are but a pale imitation of the true Lightning Bolt experience: the live show.
— Bryan · Oct 17, 03:56 PM · #
The Pissed Jeans/Rusted Shut comment is hilarious. (On that same flyer, I also quite like the description of Snake Apartment: “paper towel tube dirges.”
— turnbuckle · Oct 17, 04:05 PM · #
But, but! CW! I was mostly a punk/hardcore kid … at least until senior year in high school.
— Peter Suderman · Oct 17, 04:52 PM · #
yes, please do not mention the superlative technical skills of the bandmates—somehow that would detract from the indie cred their gratuitous distortion and low production value generate.
— Nayagan · Oct 17, 04:54 PM · #
“But, but! CW! I was mostly a punk/hardcore kid … at least until senior year in high school.”
You know who was listening to my senior year of high school (1977)? Dan Fogelberg. I was very, very confused.
— cw · Oct 17, 07:10 PM · #