Many many aeons ago I believe it was Bay and myself who leaned against the chest-high stage of the Metro oggling McEntire's stick work and Grubb's evolutionary noodling. I've recently made a return to this music because it's got a very unique flavor - something many have tried to emulate but few have even enter the same stratosphere.
This record is the sound of some punk kids learning theory, growing up, exploring the angles and new lands. Chrysalis/Nympha in action.
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Allmusic.com: While the full-length debut Bastro Diablo Guapo found David Grubbs' post-Squirrel Bait project mining Chicago-styled noise thrash, Sing the Troubled Beast offers the first hints of the fractured melodicism he would embrace with his next group, Gastr del Sol. Tempering his extremist nature with actual hooks ("Demons Begone," "Krakow, Illinois") and subtle guitar textures (the mournful "Tobacco in the Sink, "), Grubbs creates music that is compact and expressive, although he brings back the noise on cuts like "The Sifter."
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yes it was you and me brah. and i still have this shirt, much to the chagrin of those IDM kids. this album through Serpentine Similar was my fave Grubbs faze.
i gave my shirt to a dude who drummed for my band for awhile. Not sure why. A rhythm section gift.
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