Bear Claw is a Chicago-area band that uses two basses instead of the standard guitar and bass lineup. This gives them a different kind of sound. However, they usually use one of the basses like a guitar (including the distortion pedal), so it’s not quite as different as you might expect. Their sound borrows a […]
What’s not to like here? Crazy liner notes composed of hand-scrawled lists of the hierarchies of scents and angels (uh, kinda; I’m guessing the Church doesn’t recognize “The Grand Universe Eventuals” as members of the heavenly host), song titles like “Teapot Dome, Bitch”…
“Produced by J. Robbins.” At this point in the indie-rock game, you can almost guess what a band’s going to sound like just from that one sentence fragment. That’s not a dig at either Robbins or the bands he’s produced — he’s produced and played on some of my favorite records…
