Push-pull
Between Noise And The Indians
Bloomington, Indiana band of Mikes (Mike Bridavsky, Mike Hoggatt, and Mike Notaro) have combined grandiose riffs and complex arrangements into an anthemic rock album. Their sound lies somewhere in between high-brow prog and low-brow, PBR-soaked basement punk. Wtih BNATI, it seems the trio have sharpened their wit and crafted their musical skills into something unique and undeniabley important - a sound which Skyscraper Magazine insists, "sounds nothing like Shellac, Big Black, or the Wipers" but which remains "bizarrely good." Their triumphant sound is challenging by nature , but never succumbs to prog's esoteric tendencies or masturbatory "time signature stuffing." Using their brains and their balls, Push-Pull manage to effortlessly shuffle time-signatures while displaying an endless supply of hooks behind the walls of aggressive noise and pummeling beats.