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Gutbucket: Dry Humping the American Dream
by James Lamperetta
The title of Gutbucket’s second album, Dry Humping the American Dream, may well be as much a musical statement as it could be construed to be a political one, and any ambiguity regarding this interpretation would seem to be entirely what this multi-faceted, muscular, mayhem-loving quartet would hope for. At times exuding a stadium rock vibe that could be the wet dream of any red-blooded teenage guitar-hero wannabe, song titles such as “War on Drugs,” “O.J. Bin ...
Continue ReadingGutbucket: Insomniacs Dream
by Glenn Astarita
Noted for their vivacious stage shenanigans, this New York City-based jazz/rock/punk quartet also packs a lot of muscle into its repertoire. In fact, notions of the proverbial high school bullies picking on their reticent classmates come to mind. With its freshman release, the instrumentalists’ uncompromising approach to music in general comes to fruition here via a smattering of nicely arranged yet gleefully - in your face -works. On pieces such as, “Insects (Subtraction in St. Louis)” and “Don’t Fall on ...
Continue ReadingGutbucket: InsomniacsDream
by AAJ Staff
Seething at its borders, improvisation eagerly embraces stray forms of music. The New York avant quartet Gutbucket know this fact, and they use it to great advantage on InsomniacsDream. Funk, noise, free improv, swinging jazz, and pounding rock all flow into this record. The common theme that ties the disc together is open-ended improvisation. Gutbucket's postmodern juxtaposition of styles means a tune might ease into nightclub jazz cool, then gradually disintegrate into flying shards of sound, then leap directly into ...
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