![]() Oddly enough it’s actually the Kim Deal sung song, “Gigantic” that kind of steals the show here. They aren’t your daddy’s punk band giving the middle finger and farting into the mic they’re the thinking man’s college rock band. Everything they do on this album just has an edge of smart to it. There’s terror and humor, and even a softer side of a band that would just as soon give you a hotfoot as spit something vile in your eye. Black Francis talk/sings/yelps his way through song after song filled with skulls and body parts and illusions to things near and far. And despite there being a lot to grab onto here, this thing is still all knees and elbows. Driven by the radical production of Steve Albini (can this guy make even a shit sandwich sound good?), this album is all up in your face. ![]() Here they are in relatively chronological order: Slint – Tweezįrom the opening downbeat of “Bone Machine,” Surfer Rosa’s first track, you know this album is gonna kick some ass. I clearly enjoy the man’s work as evidenced by the multitude of albums I own that were produced by him. Of course, reading over my Bitch Magnet review, I’m obviously talking about the album of the dual-album re-release that Albini did NOT record… And ripping guitar solos and squealing shredding and bombast all right up front and not buried in the overproduced whitewash reverb of most of today’s hipster music. The man can make drums sound like the banging instrument they should be, not just background mush. Just straight ahead rock and fucking roll.Īnd nobody, in my opinion, does it better than Steve Albini. It’s producing guitars and drums and shit that sounds like shit should. ![]() I know it’s super old school to care about producers in rock music, but I’m an old school kind of guy.
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