5ingles

Canon Blue
"Indian Summer (Des Moines)"

Rittz

Related Content

• Twin Cities among best metros for the young, broke, and single, study says
  June 19, 2013
• Daft Punk's Random Access Memories proves disco still doesn't suck
  May 24, 2013
• Captured! By Robots
  April 24, 2013
• Soundgarden
  January 30, 2013
• Soundgarden at the Orpheum Theatre, 2/2/13
  February 4, 2013

More About

• Des Moines
• The Sheepdogs
• Sam Kinison
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
• Glenn Danzig

Some breaks are beyond the ability of Gorilla Glue or hot reconciliation sex to fix. The jaunty, singing-strings "Summer" brings listeners into the moment just after each side has realized détente isn't happening but there's a fear of verbalizing and thereby ratifying the particulars of this harsh new reality.

A street-wise, sentient Slinky, captured poppin', lockin,' and breakin' on wax. Fresh!

The compressingdensetanglesofbarbedwirelyricism in tipsy sing-song legacy of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony lives on in the person of a clown-haired white rapper from Atlanta who looks and dresses a little like Sam Kinison.

When your twilight acid-trip reaches the point where the constellations have reconfigured themselves as cherry-flavored dry-ice stalagmites or guitar-strokin', world-destroying rejects from Daft Punk videos, you've no recourse but to crank "Swords" louder still.

Rolling Stone cover-story contest winners rock shaggily but know how to soft-sell poly-guitar harmonies like the kind of band who, back in the '60s or '70s, would have been on the cover of Rolling Stone at least once a year. Read: kinda like Chris Cornell or Glenn Danzig fronting Phish for a cover of the classic Juicy Fruit jingle, which is no bad thing at all.