You may not realize it now but this style will be copied, altered, and intimidated by a whole slew of bands in the next few years. Because even through the chaos, the undefinable mess, it works. If you open your ears and let the music speak, you will be affected. On Under Thunder And Fluorescent Light, this guitar, bass, and drums trio has taken to the studio a whole new slew of ideas captured perfectly by the recording talents of Jim O'Rourke. Though their first album was recorded live in the studio by Steve Albini, the new record puts to good use some studio trickery that highlights and shadows the band's strengths and flaws.
Vocals move in and out of the mix in a much smoother manner and are layered and overlapped.
Guitars are echoed and panned while the drumrolls can sound soft yet in your face and then distant and blistering in a moment. Silence screams to leap into disorder in the time signature of infinity. Tape samples of conversations roll as bass lines bump and roll under the conscious. How Storm And Stress write their songs is a justifiable question and the answer is more than likely by accident. The thing that most people have the hardest time getting is that music doesn't have to follow a set time measure.