Rick Bain and The Genius Position - Crooked Autumn Sun 2xLP (Orange Vinyl and Amber Vinyl)

Rick Bain and The Genius Position - Crooked Autumn Sun 2xLP (Orange Vinyl and Amber Vinyl)It's not immediately clear what Rick Bain is up to, but that's not a bad thing; "Crooked Autumn Sun," the debut album from Bain and his band, the Genius Position, is more intriguing for revealing itself gradually. The opening song is called "Three Chord #1," and the quartet does dabble in the sort of '60s pop rock that title evokes. Yet the Portland, Ore., singer songwriter and his group are also a little bit alt country, somewhat psychedelic and even

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to sci-fi imagery and cosmic horror

whose interactions and reactions are contained in and bursting from a black metal framework

There were specific incidences within the story

'We’re a band that slings shoegaze

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perfectly capture the smarter face of early-'90s thug-rock

You could call this music a lot of things

distorting all meaning and distilling to reveal the raw core of pure sonic joy

Parker named the project The New Breed (after a clothing store his late father Ernie owned and operated in the ‘70s) and finished the album by stitching the band tracks together with intermittent pieces of beat memories from his archive

would be the primary writer of the material

Paul Hamann at Suma has transferred from the original 2-track analogue mix tapes to digital at the highest resolution available which