I’m probably really late on this, but I’m not really a bandwagon person anyway.

Blues Control, Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho of Watersports, has always been rather hit or miss for me from what I had heard from them.  It seemed time to really give them a go last week when I saw Puff at Ear X-tacy for the try-me price of $5.  I love zone out times, but moments on Puff are almost too zone out for me.  However, there are some real flashes of brilliance, as well.

“Always on Time” is straight from space.  It’s the sound emitting from the SETI experiments.  Large, cavernous waves of radiation and solar wind flush around a simple, rarely changing Neu-esque piano melody with the reverb turned up all the way and dripping in condensation for 12 big minutes. The harmonica on “Behind the Skies” is the only indication that Blues Control is going to attempt to live up to its name, a mid-tempo, fuzzed-out burner remiscent of Lightning Bolt on purple drank (perhaps there’s a connection between Ride the Skies and Behind the Skies?).  Actually, and not to self-promote but, “Behind the Skies” reminds me of a song I recorded in Chicago last winter called “Consumer Confidence in Christ is Down” on my Meridian Signals project.  I’m just sayin’.

R-O-C-K in the U-S-A!!!11

MP3 :::
Blues Control – Always on Time
Blues Control – Behind the Skies