
From the first short slide down the bass that begins "In the Fire," I was hooked. The track, which opens The Treatment , the latest release from Bloomington IN "slowcore" rockers Early Day Miners , is solid and an inspired choice to bat lead-off on the band's sixth full-length release. The confident pacing of the track belies maturity and experience, so when I went to do a little post-listening/pre-writing intel work, I wasn't surprised in the least to find that the band had been in operation since 1999. What did surprise me was that [...]