Poking a Hole in a Bag of Tears
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $19.86
The dogged stomp of Columbus, Ohio, group’s drumming, the lingering melody of the guitars, the buzz and the momentum — it has to do with that faded croon, a kind of singing that makes the worst story you ever heard just kind of drift past you.
Son of Drib Against the Wind
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $20.00
The twelve songs of scuzzed-out garage pop on the second LP from this trio (now expanded to a quartet) take you from Beat Happening to the Warsaw demos to the first Strokes LP, then right back home to Columbus, OH, where they hold their own with like-minded predecessors like Cheater Slicks, Times New Viking, Great Plains, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and so on. Two songs were included in the soundtrack to Poser (which made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival).