Category: Steve Shelley

There’s serious rock and roll firepower at play in this inaugural disc from three grizzled, amp-damaged veterans. You know Bill Orcutt from his noise-jamming youth in Harry Pussy or his more recent coruscating solo electric albums or his generation-spanning and revelatory Four Guitars Quartet with Wendy Eisenberg, Shane Parish and Ava Mendoza. Steve Shelley comes direct from drumming through free-form grooves with Winged Wheel and, before that, from his work with Sonic Youth, the acknowledged acme of cerebral guitar interplay. And Ethan Miller is the man behind the 21st century’s last practicing classic rock band, Howlin’ Rain and, before that, the sky-scorching Comets on Fire. He’s playing bass here, as he did in Heron Oblivion, of which the only bad thing to say is that it didn’t last very long…