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David Bixler: Inside the Grief
ByThe three keep the performance lean, knowing well beyond metaphor that the lighter one travels the more ground one covers. Bixler's characteristically shiny, metallic tone and searching logic, wavers, leads, dances and dives with taut, scrappy lucidity. So he opens the conversation with the wiry, two-part blues movement "What Does It Care/I Spy." It snaps and switches back. It urges itself forward. Like most people emerging from isolation, "Like Shosti" begins life slowly. August and Fabio moving pensively until a shadow tango takes form under Bixler's five note mantra and minor variations. Like three guys shaking off the dust of these odd days, the looser mid-tempo interplay of "389" makes for a sweet moment.
Take all of the preceding paragraph and mix it into the title track and that makes the final two tracks of Inside the Grief, the gesturing shadows of "Balm" and the aggressive, pent up release closer "Vote!" like bonus tracks to a real good thing.
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What Does if Care?/I Spy Like Shosti 389 Inside the Grief Balm Vote!
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Title: Inside the Grief | Year Released: 2020 | Record Label: Bixxlixx Music
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