As I settled down to listen, I was prepared to dodge hurled beer bottles and witness terrible scenes of emotional turmoil, something like a Rudolph Giuliani press conference. They tore through a 40-minute set with hardly a hiccup. As influences, the band names Jesus Lizard, Slint, Elvis Costello, the Neeks, Brian Wilson and John Wyatt. Music is sound. Music equals noise.
Noise equals music.
In other words, it's up to me to describe what the band sounds like. Their music is, like Bob Dole, mostly hard, but intelligently so. Rarely has so much been said with so few words. Asking a Muncie band about the local music scene is like asking Rush Limbaugh what he thinks of poor people, but I asked anyway. But they all agree that things are beginning to improve.