The Book Of Knots - Traineater

On ‘Traineater’, the Book of Knots’ sophomore effort, the Brooklyn avant supergroup (Tony Maimone of Pere Ubu, Carla Kihlstedt of Tin Hat Trio, producer/engineer/guitarist Joel Hamilton and Matthias Bossi of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) crafts a soundscape conceptually based on the decaying of the Rust Belt. Mining a sound somewhere between Tom Waits and Sonic Youth, the quartet layers metallic shards and plucked strings over bracing percussion clips and samples to create something akin to post-industrial Americana. Always interesting, and at times quite beautiful, ‘Traineater’ also includes cameos from indie stars such as Mike Watt and Jon Langford. Simply put, this is fascinating music from a heavy, beautiful, dark, slow, melancholy collective.

1. View From The Watertower
2. Hands Of Production
3. Traineater
4. Pray
5. Pedro To Cleveland
6. Red Apple Boy
7. Where’d Mom Go?
8. Ballad Of John Henry, The
9. Midnight 10. Boomtown
11. Salina
12. Third Generation Pink Slip
13. Hewitt-Smithson
14. Walker Percy Evans High School

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