Blog: The PhiLL(er)

Pontiak Maker (Thrill Jockey) This album puzzled me the first time I listened to it, and I think now I know the reason why: I was listening to it on headphones on a train traveling underneath London, and the album was recorded in a 12' x 12' shack in rural Virginia. We weren't even close to being on the same page. "Maker" is crank-up-your-speakers-til-the y-rattle music. The opener, "Laywayed", sets the tone, buzzing guitar echoing a sorta bluesy but not quite riff against itself, against [...]