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...that offers, according to a note at the end of the volume, a “face of notable heft, with a dense color on the page and sharp serifs reminiscent of the carver’s chisel.” The intended effect, obviously, is one of words hewn in granite, with Rudenstine as a 21st century Moses, handing down a new set of commandments—although perhaps we should call them “suggestions,” instead, since our former president was above all a defender of intellectual diversity...
...complement his eccentric creations, he employs language so richly textured and wildly unconventional that it seems to be drunk on its own words. Dissolving the long-hewn pillars of “good message” and “good taste,” he gives gaudy and vulgar personalities, vaudevillian song-and-dance and narrative non-sequitur the freedom to run amok onstage...
...built a notorious reputation on its purposely infantile attitude and a somewhat haphazard fusion of riot grrl and disco-pop. With this new album, the band manages to accomplish what few expected, filing away the childlike antics and eschewing the rough-hewn punk aesthetic for more complex arrangements, thus fashioning a mature update of their distinctive sound. Whether they are ultimately successful, however, is less certain...
Time, though, wore down the rough-hewn edges of Gob’s political and social outlook. Their next album—the 1998 release How Far Shallow Takes You—is, in its insouciance, vastly different from Too Late. The song titles alone reveal as much: The list of tracks list is conspicuously devoid of such titles as “Fuck them” and “Asshole,” two tracks from Too Late. Lyrically, the songs are much tamer, and indicate a shift in focus towards some of punk music?...
...founder, Gregg Ginn, used the business acumen he picked up from a surplus radio equipment business he operated out of his home to market his band's records by mail. Soon he began to put out albums by other bands who, like Black Flag, were too rough-hewn and eccentric to attract major record labels. Solid State Tuners, or SST, as it became known, was the name of both the radio parts enterprise and the tiny record label he used to release whatever obscurities he pleased...