The Reeks and the Wrecks
Knife Hits
Tumult
This here bunch of basement noise ain’t no head of lettuce. This here’s the whole bag of greens. Trip-away guitars dream up lucid tremors allayed by thunderous, exorcizing horns and shake-the-foundation percussion. What’s-this-junk electronics and handmade instruments join in the procession into the crawlspaces and parade about the boilers, and goddamn if it ain’t just some of the most spine-tingling jumble-into-mini-opus crammed onto tape.
“Maui Wow Wow” blends a clamorous what’re-they-building-in-there intrigue with Industrial Age leftovers to stab at classic rock’n’soul gags resulting in a hallucinatory meander through left-fallow urban mazes. Its wake washes clean the film noir/cinema verite grit to leave an emerald trail of tropical bio-diversity.
The R & W lumber and charge through a history of American music like a freight train with the engineer done shot and then ditch themselves in a gutter to pound away the horrors and get the atrophying limbs of wayward gut-buckets to dance the damned stomp till a hail-shower of reborn flesh sets the rhythm of a brand new boogie.
“Free Smoke” seemingly sets off to re-do “When the Levee Breaks”, but the levee is breaking and the whole thing goes down in the flood of horns and get-the-hell-out-of-the-way drums before the first verse. The R&W employ lessons learned from big bands and big guitar ensembles to drop a scrim upon which their own sense of scenery reels on and on into oblivion.
Unfortunately, this train makes its first and last stop with Knife Hits. Songwriter and guitarist Orion Satusheck was struck down by a drunk driver shortly after the albums completion.
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Posted by: Yale | July 11, 2009 at 04:53 PM