Then Geffen Records began circling the drain, disappearing in a vast merger this spring. The Maniacs went back to Jamestown, where most of the band members still live, to try again. The little hollow is a house is downtown Buffalo. She rents from three sisters, all widows who share the various floors. They fight and yell, because they're all deaf.
Every day is a tragedy.
Like Lombardo, Ramsey doesn't have quite as strong a hand for haughty social concern as Merchant. It's a contemplative, plebeian perspective that weaves its way throughout The Earth Pressed Flat.