R Mike Presents: WOVEN BONES, The Burnt Ones, Streetlamps for Spotlights
Monday June 28th, 2010
WOVEN BONES
Burnt Ones (Indianapolis)
Streetlamps for Spotlights (Fort Wayne)
10PM
$4
Chicago’s premiere garage and nouveau psychedelic punk rock label, HoZac Records, has finally unleashed…the debut full-length from Austin, Texas’ Woven Bones…Over in under a half-hour, In and Out and Back Again lurches inexorably forward, chewing up and spitting out anything that gets in its way. The album’s cavernous, live feel makes listening to it a bit like standing at the back of a thunderous rock club without ear plugs, praying that your cochleas will survive. Frontman Andrew Burr, a recent Florida-to-Texas transplant, doesn’t so much sing his lyrics as let them trail from his lips in a wounded, grungy syrup that at times rises into a piercing hiccup. The solid rhythm section of Matty on bass and Carolyn on drums keeps it all tied together in an ominous and fuzzy package, providing the perfect backdrop for Burr’s occasional apocalyptic guitar passages. -L.A. Times Music Blog
