J.R.C.G. - Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra)To experience Justin R. Cruz Gallegos pulverizing Sub Pop debut is to get burned down to ashes and burst forth, born anew. Grim Iconic(Sadistic Mantra), the Tacoma based artists second album, is driven by opposing forces: noisy abstractions and tightly structured beats, anguish and dissolution at the outside world and empowerment within, apathy and catharsis. Grim Iconic(Sadistic Mantra) weds scouring electronics to hooky songs and Gallegos powerful

and contributed a Bert Jansch cover to Leigh Folk Festival’s annual compilation

Yet the band also flourish with stripped-back performances of songs that were more aggressive and dramatic in their original form

This theme feeling at once conspicuous and invisible

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Harris threads a hidden radiant language of voice

Before there was Rimarimba

“The violin part for Canines had been in my head for almost a decade already

some of the more upbeat notions that the band have dealt with to date

He counts material from Daft Punk

Cole that set him on the path he still walks today

I would bring them the songs

this is a rare case of unheard material being assembled as an indispensable and coherent piece