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U.S. Maple, "Long Hair in 3 Stages"
Skin Graft records (?), released: yes
This is the music of the new melennium. As it all comes crashing down this music says something about the history and the crash. Exit gun and knife, but please don't shoot them down. These are the songs that will matter when the dust settles. 10 songs presented in a timely fashion about music and pain and the here after. There is a discordant ring to the whole disc. A new kind of hardcore through a slightly jazz filter. They offer some kind of control but with way sloppy execution. The vocals remind me a bit of Capt. Beefheart and there is some debt to Sonic Youth, but the sounds are of the here, now and future, this week anyway. I can't recommend this more highly . Four stars, two thumbs up. Live and let die.
[BdeV 4/13/98]