Arab on Radar - Yahweh or the Highway
(Skin Graft)
Having found their footing again on their last album after losing it when they decided to drop the bass from the lineup after their first album, Arab on Radar has moved ahead to write some pretty great songs around their seasick, perverse style.
The opener, "My Mind is a Muffler," has a strangely melodic chorus, sounding something like The Rye Coalition's skinnier, stranger sibling. "Birth Control Blues" shows them pushing those treble knobs up higher and higher, with frenetic dischordance and with Eric's high-pitched vocal squeak. "God is Dad" is saturated with distorted and very quickly strummed guitars. On any other record, they would sound tinnier than any of the other guitars, but on this, these guitars sound THICK, and heavy.
The arrangements and writing are getting more scattered and exciting. They may be living up to their idols, US Maple, or they may be slowly becoming their predecessors,
Shorty... I'm not sure which.
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