THE SHEAVES - "Excess Death Cult Time" LPThe Sheaves Excess Death Cult Time LP (Minimum Table Stacks, 2023) "The Sheaves are a five piece from Phoenix, AZ who churn out a murky yet driving, melodic style of post punk you dont hear that often because, well, most bands cant pull it off. Not exactly easy to write songs that make one think of The Fall, the Swell Maps, the Axemen, but also Chrome, the Frogs and even early Pavement, without just sounding like a tribute act. The five young men who

” Tropical Trash comes off as the tinfoil hat eggshells you’d expect

Dan Cross - Shopping CS (Albert's Basement

" their latest effort captures the quartet in their most raw and honest form -- outfitted for full-on rock modes

Dan’s first full length of 2021

non-stop for almost 20 years now

which produced a 7” single that I found quite fetching

the LP tune's incessant rhythmic heartbeat surgically squeezed into an asymmetrical stereo collage of surrealistic auditory hallucination

Funny couplets like "Sleeping Is the Only Love"'s "I heard they were taming the shrew/I heard the shrew was you" and lighter

” he explains

but the main focus is to keep it high energy

but rather that of an honest

Drake's support was an achingly slow Max Roach-like beat