2013, Sacred Bones

VINYL FORMAT. A-side "Electric" is a gnarled, heaving ache of a windup, at once brown and blossoming, full to the brim with choked-back bottle rocket guitars. If one were to boil The Men down to their most essential, this would be the stone left behind. A stark contrast to its accomplice, B-side "Water Babies" is a different affair altogether. Bassist Ben Greenberg grabs the reins running as the prime mover behind this resigned, cracked-throat descending homage, lacquered thick in as much indifference and disbelief as it is frustrated absorption.