Comecrudos (EP)
Pontiak
Released:
Jun 2011
Label:
Thrill Jockey
Comecrudos -- an expansive foray into dark drone, ambient brain-foam and moody post-folk -- is the most experimental release Pontiak has dropped to date. Designed specifically as a soundtrack for the sublime drive between Marathon, Tex., and Big Bend National Park (that's U.S. Route 385 for all you geography nerds), the album is broken into five movements. "Part II" recalls Slint's Spiderland, while "Part III" sounds like Giant Sand's Howe Gelb, the father of desert rock, fronting Obscured by Clouds-era Pink Floyd. Good chances are Comecrudos would sound killer on just about any drive.
Thrill Jockey Records