This past weekend I had the good fortune to catch North America's CD release show with Birthing Nets. North America features several members late of Bad Lieutenant, one of whom, bassist Dave Kellermann, also played in psychedelic/grunge outfit Fallout, one of my favorites from the early 2000s suburban Baltimore scene. Birthing Nets features Aaron Waesche (ex-If; and Salad) on guitar and vocals and Tim Shaw (ex-Thinking Toys, also ex-Fallout and Salad) on bass. Birthing Nets play noisy, thrashy post-hardcore that makes frequent use of atonality is only a few steps shy of total chaos. As I noted to a few friends of mine, it's highly reminiscent of the early '90s San Diego scene that produced bands like Clikatat Ikatowi and Drive Like Jehu. North America are similar in style, although cleaner and more melodic, bearing some progressive rock and math rock influences. North America are one of the first groups I've heard in a while that put the complex, King Crimson-derived guitar lines of those heady influences to good use in their songs, often to moving, emotional effect. The show was a good time despite being advertised as starting at the wrong time. Both North America and Birthing Nets have CDRs out on Defective Bat records, which I reccomend checking out.
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0_o ... i just wish the timing would of been a bit more organized! other then that, i had a good time staying out in the cold weather and tryin to get alcohol from these two guys at the CVS store. i never knew CVS carried such a bad habit..phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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