CD $16.13

This is a keeper. Recorded live at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Los Angeles with help from Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, Worldbroken is wholly improvised -- the band showed up, started playing, then stopped after about an hour. It's not one seamless song, but a series of hallucinatory segments that ebb and flow like a thick liquid sloshing around in a container. Even the parts that don't work, don't go on too long, and what you're left with is a mostly fresh, at times exciting, approach to live rock per...   [ read more ]

CD $16.13

If by this point you have developed a jones for Saccharine Trust's post-hardcore semi-improvisatory jazz-rock, then this CD -- over an hour of live recordings covering a period of eight years -- should find a place in your collection. For a vault-clearing compilation, there is very little bullsh*t and lots of inspired bashing and wailing, making this a great purchase for lovers of the arcane and far-out. At its best, Past Lives is astonishing, a hint of how good, warts and all, this band could ...   [ read more ]

CD $18.03