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Trumans Water - O Zeta Zunis

Review by Noel Gardner

If you are a crazed and longterm fan, this does the Trumans Water thing with a kind of aplomb. The world at large doesn’t need it, although it’d be swell if a few of those sockless kids who’ve formed Pavementy, willfully lo-fi bands in the last year or two skronked themselves up in this manner and stopped writing songs about going to the beach.»

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trumans water's 13th proper studiuo album 'o zeta zunis' sounds remarkably fresh if also in keeping with a fistful of enduring collective aesthetic trumans water identities: the ever-active, wildly clawing, rough-toned brace of guitars; the sour-sweet sing-shout screech-croon 'n' power-yowl; the explosive rhythms, herking here and jerking there, none too predictable anywhere. and some fun sound-play. thoughtfully goofin' verbiage. 'o zeta zunis' is a cohesive foursome ripping confidently, a few slowed-up passages helping to accentuate the melodic riff-drive of 'last time' or the balls-out whizz-bang of 'greased water,' the twitchy-catchy frolic of '5-7-10 split' or the rubbery buzz-chug of 'you live out loud.' nice. on asthmatic kitty records.
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