Time Attack

Chicago's art-damaged post-punks New Black return with a sophomore CD that's a modern hybrid of the new-wave/no-wave pop/punk dynamic. What might just be the album the x-ray spex never wrote, has a visceral undertone that's drugged out and creepy. Playing with frenetic beats and frantic riffs, there's a duality here that both decadent and distorted. At times dance-y and flamboyant, others fast and flagrant, always on the razors edge. The dueling girl/boy vocals of Patti Gran (guitar) and Liam Kimball (bass), where innuendo meets evil genius, is equally savage and sexy. 11 tracks that bump and grind and feel so good. Recorded at the world-famous Pachyderm Studios (where Nirvana recorded In Utero and PJ Harvey recorded Rid Of Me) and produced by Greg Norman (Milemarker, Guided By Voices, Mclusky), New Black’s Time Attack is so good it will make your head explode.