lunch: Dinner (Midwest Microscope Boneyard Records, 2024)

April 1, 2025 at 10:47 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

lunch: Dinner

I’m going to make a confession here. I never saw this band live, even though their guitarist was co-music director with me at WCBN for basically the entire time this band existed. Furthermore, I didn’t even check out any of their music during that time. Listening to their album now, more than half a year after it was released and the band broke up, I just feel shameful, because this astonishingly good. Instrumental math-rock with tons of volume and complexity, saying an entire band’s worth with just guitar and drums, not unlike Hella. “Rat Surgery in a Sedan” is an all-at-once brain-shocker that attacks in a nice way. “Hex.Dritalin (For Kyle at the American Legion)” is a longer one which starts with some sharp frequencies, and trails off into more emo guitar melodies. “The Idea of Tamara Tamara” feels like a bit of a rest, then “Oh, You Just Missed It” builds and gets increasingly agitated, with minimalist guitar riffs and battering drums, though they both switch between intensity levels. “xkeyscore kidney” is a slowly-building 13-minute epic which requires patience, but reaches a massive conclusion.

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