Parts & Labor

Oh boy, here's something. Parts & Labor everyone. A further testament to why I love everything that comes off JagJaguwar. But this is an entirely different beast altogether. P&L admit to being big fans of the folk music, recorded a split album with the soon-to-be-legendary Tyondai Braxton, and their noisy debut Groundswell, is an instrumental album. They are hard to pin down and with the lack of a proper genre to place them in, critics were forced to call them "the pop version of Lightning Bolt" or "Animal Collective gone rockNroll". The music is pummeling (drummer Chris Weingarten is often found standing at his kit, best positioning himslef for the most brutal attack) but also gorgeous and melodic (Dan Friel creates a bagpipe-like effect from his guitar that creates lush and drawn-out tones, & singer/bass player BJ Warshaw usually bellows & howls his oft-political lyrics), sounding like an electro-rock version of chorale hymns. Amazing. And they're just getting things started.

I suggest you turn your speakers down:
Parts & Labor - A Great Divide

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