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- Spray Paint
I’m often playing catch-up when it comes to underground-rock scuzz these days and I’m certainly a late arrival to the joys of the Austin trio called Spray Paint, who today released their third and best album Clean Blood, Regular Acid (Monofonus Press). The group haven’t changed up their sound or approach since forming in early 2012, but they sound more focused than ever, distilling an already austere, stripped-down attack into something exhilaratingly compact and fat-free. As on earlier records the electric guitars of Cory Plump and George Dishner transmit the same sort of raw, slate-gray atonal throb of early Sonic Youth or Live Skull, while drummer Chris Stephenson accentuates the primitive by dropping thudding, postpunk rhythms that ground the music in something blue-collar, immediate, and delightfully crude. The chanted group vocals, delivered with a masterfully executed sense of boredom and sing-songy disgust, reminds of the classic art-punk of LA’s Urinals.
Bobo Stenson Trio, War Orphans (ECM)Land, Night Within (Important)Throbbing Gristle, 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Industrial)Joe Puma, Jazz (Jubilee, Japan)Bleached, Ride Your Heart (Dead Oceans)
