A-Frames/Climax Golden Twins

Add Date: January 19

Artist: A-Frames/Climax Golden Twins

Album: AFCGT

Label: Sub Pop

Genre: Rock (see comments)

Comments: From Sub Pop (best I've seen in a while): "Drooling Hillbilly Metal, Sea Urchin Psychedelia, Yukon Freak Thrash, and Beatnik Swamp Drone are musical genres, like dozens of others, which are in the infancy of their developments. Yet someone has finally harnessed the inside track to claiming a few of these elusive styles as their own creations. AFCGT is a rather convenient vernacular for 'A-Frames' and 'Climax Golden Twins' but if you're hopeful that the usual sources are stocked with facts and figures about this outfit, think again. There's not much information available on AFCGT. I remember those slow, manageable, pastoral times before the internet spy cam invaded our cerebral cortex when we had to depend on out own imagination and intuition to guide us. And just like the tail end of those glory days when cell phones were the size of a breadbox, if you want to get all up inside this AFCGT and handpick a quick fact or two, you'll get your right arm sawed-off by razor-sharp rhythmic white noise. The cretinous calliope that is AFCGT descends from a decrepit longhouse on the shores of a dark lake where the self-inflicted wounds from a windy-forest of flailing, whipping branches gave birth to the white heat oddities from their self-titles new album on Sub Pop Records. ... With 3 electric guitars, a bass guitar, and a drum kit they manage to emulate the decaying soundtrack of an international airport with all the trimmings; accidental runway collisions, air traffic control extremism, unauthorized handling of cargo, and bitching passengers at checkpoint screenings. I heard a couple of them used to work with torches deep inside jet engines at Boeing's secret facility up north and all but lost their hearing because of it. That may help explain the loud racket these guys make but truly, all one can do is speculate."

Super raw, super inaccessible, noisy rock. I felt "Legged Dog," a real ten-minute odyssey of racket and drone.

AAM