Meneguar [MAH-NAY-GWAR]
I Was Born At Night
Troubleman [2006]

"let's disguise ourselves like ink and stain the wind will go right through me - it's the bullshit that gives us away"

I had to give Meneguar a second listen. On the first spin a few weeks back, it wasn't that I Was Born At Night rubbed me the wrong direction - it just failed to touch me at all. It must have been one of those days [maybe it was the day my snow leopard died], but all said and set straight - I Was Born At Night is effective indeed. "I'm not picking battles cause I'm not ready to choose"

On the surface, the lazy ear may want to drop this Bushwick > Brooklyn quartet [cute guys, yeah?] into that huge waste crate labeled "ROCK" - but I would press against such a senseless tag. No - these guys aren't openly known to shit / bleed / both on stage, but they do lend a swift kick in the ass to much of what is known as "rock" on the current dismal scene. Like a blissfully dysfunctional marriage between Television and Shellac² [hear: "A Few Minutes An Hour", "The Temp" - or don't, it's a FREE gd'dmned country ain't it now?] - this reissue¹ of a seriously out of print gem proves true need to make it readily available to the kiddos with weighty shoulders. What all this instantly broken knowledge proves is that I have no idea what the hell is going on - I'm just a snake in a house of cats.

kaleb, eat the cat :: [ July 06 ]

¹ new artwork, some sections of the album re-recorded even. now you have to own both.
² willful suspension of disbelief > on.