Black Eyes - Hostile Design 12" recordBlack Eyes Hostile Design 12" record "On Hostile Design, the band resumes their work as musical chiropractors for the American psyche. Across its six songs, and in less than a half hour, Black Eyes offers percussive tit for tat, bounding between dub grooves and in the soil rhythms. Bass lines pulse, synthesizers wash, saxophones squeal. And McElroy and Martin McCormick perform lyrical counterpoint, trading images, idioms, symbols and scripture

suddenly a new young band appears and ever ything we thought was solid andunmovable becomes a big pile of rubble

maybe because it's not entirely clear whether or not the Nation of Ulysses is serious or just playing a joke on all the indie rock hipsters

The song "Bruno" is another standout track that demonstrates the bands diversity

they have continued to tour in line with their DIY philosophy

Tim Green has remixed the recording at Louder Studios for a significantly more powerful

Cindy Blackman

The CD format’s innate combination of bounded listening and potential continuity reinforces the experience of Serpens as a complete and bounded entity

After getting a new drummer in 2002

Open the Sky has a hymn base and is a prayer

Kjetil Brandsdal

the real point of the band is to play live

bass and vocals live straight down on 2" 16 ch tape