Indie Vinyl

Beautiful & pastoral (mostly), the new batch of Drag City releases arrived one recent late summer day. Jim O'Rourke's "The Visitor" is nicely acoustic and beautifully arranged. Six Organ of Admittance's "Luminous Night" is sweet, but with a dark creepiness underneath. Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh's "Overloaded Ark" is dreamy & trancelike, Then along comes Monotonix's "Where Were You When it Happened?" with a kick in the teeth, kick-ass hard rockin' ala Mudhoney. Yeah, hup!