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Stage movements added little to Unwound's already dry personality. Rumsey would occasionally break from his steady position for a gulp of beer. Trosper would often wince or bob up and down while emoting over some random, nonsensical lyric. Even drummer Sara Lund's top-heavy noggin kept her head perpetually lopsided; combined with an empty, stunned gaze, Lund provided quite the unsettling image...
...this overwhelming visual imagery cloud the musical promise of the songs Unwound chose to play from their Kill Rock Stars arsenal. At first, the music suffered from its surface awkwardness and appeared to have no direction, no substance, no reason. But Unwound wouldn't let you leave the room without closing up the gaps in the musical context. A dissonant run-on melody may have dragged out interminably and lost your attention or the grinding repetitiveness of a discordant thrash tune could have sent your mind a flitter, but Unwound always successfully brought the listener back into their sonically disturbing...
Here's a word of advice for listening to Unwound: let the music wash over...
...matter how distracted you felt or wanted to feel, by opening up your senses to the noise, Unwound's underlying musical messages were easier to uncover. The difficulty was wading through the distortion and seemingly incongruous combination of vocals, bass, guitar and drums. But the triumph, and possibly Unwound's greatest ability, was the band's adroitness in crafting a latent coherence to most songs. Unwound makes its listeners work to appreciate the music...
...they were playing on different levels separate from accompanying players. Lund was sure to keep the beat but the rhythm often seemed to disagree with Trosper and Rumsey. Similarly, bass and guitar often battled for who could be more discernibly out of step with the other. Despite the randomness, Unwound never failed in molding distinct, assimilable songs from the musical mess...