Noisy, arty rock... lo-fi, shambolic, country-tinged, dynamic, and complex. All guitars & drums (+ a bit of synth). Male vocals (two vocalists, usually separate), sometimes with a country twang and sometimes whiney... a bit like Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Portastatic). I find the vocals cool & often funny. YMMV. From LA, this is their debut (we got it almost two years after it first came out). Founding members, guitarists Rob Danson and Nicholas Ceglio, met at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood. Most songs alternate between quiet/acoustic and loud/noisy. Play with Great Plains, The Lookyloos, Portastatic, Sebadoh, Salem 66, other artists on the Homestead label. This is a great (albeit obscure) CD. FCC Clean. Start with 3, 8, 9.

1. Minute-long instrumental prelude, on the border between post-rock and new age. Slow fade in. Slow fade then 10 secs of silence.
2. Starts with noisy guitar, then a bit of bombastic drums, then whiney emo vocals.
==> 3. Soft/loud noisy, sardonic ballad about America. Starts with slow drums & bass. Fades with synth noise.
4. Slow, sparse ballad about conflict in Africa as a model for personal crisis. Starts with some ambience and then weird spoken sample about nothingness. Fades, then 10 secs of silence.
5. Noisy country rocker. Starts with solo guitar playing suspended chords. Gets loud and momentous toward end, then wraps up, then a bit of silence.
6. Mid-slow strummy ballad. Includes interesting processed guitar at end + some synth. Starts with reverse guitar strum. Slow fade.
7. Minimal, sparse ballad. No beats. Instrumental for first two minutes -- just ethereal guitars plus discordant strums. Slow fade.
==> 8. Sleepy, quiet ballad with noisy guitar wails in background. Starts with finger-picked guitar. False ending, then fade, then some silence.
==> 9. High energy folk rock. Less noisy than most of the other tracks here. Nice harmony vocals. Starts with noisy guitar. Fades.
10. Dynamic rocker. Starts with 10 secs of drums, then noisy guitar joins. Fades.
11. Starts quiet with slow fade up of multiple guitars and cymbals. Ends with a reference to track one.