Now five albums into the Damaged Bug solo project, John Dwyer brings the pounding krautish grooves you expect, as well as some things you don’t: gothy, baritone, ballads a la Roxy Music or John Cale; 70s-fusion jazz-influenced improvisations, and Afro-beat rhythms. Damaged Bug has always been more open-ended than even the wide-ranging Ohsees, and it’s a treat to see an artist like Dwyer following his own inclinations, wherever they might lead, and often into illuminating new territory.
Category: Damaged Bug
Damaged Bug :: “Sold America”
The Record Store Day–attached project is now delayed until July, but the belle of the ball is the already released single “Sold America,” a track from Michael Yonkers Band’s 1968 classic Microminiature Love that feels so thoroughly modern in Dwyer’s hands that it’s somewhat baffling it was originally written and recorded during the Vietnam War.