Monday, March 30, 2009

Twin Infinities

Drag City just re-issued this amazing record and I cannot thank them enough.  For some reason when all of the noise-heads of the world talk about influences and try to "out cool" themselves this album never seems to be mentioned.  It reminds me of early Kraftwerk jamming with Keith Richards in a botched attempt to remake Exile on Main Street.  None of it makes sense yet it makes more sense than anything recorded.  To me it is the Trout Mask Replica of the 90's in the sense that it takes a heavily established idiom and mutates it beyond the realms of any rational logic.  They went on to refine their sound yet still create some of the dirtiest funk noise rock but this is still the mountain that casts a never ending shadow across the wastelands of modern music.