CAVE - Psychic Psummer LP power pop Kim was re-acquainted with the

Kim was re-acquainted with the free jazz/noise/ fusion bug and resolved to get the band back together for at least long enough to work through what it started back in the late 1980s

Suicide and Wire

IRENE SALZER (violin)

in all its chaotic beauty

forged by these fires of self-destruction and the trials of all the lives before

CAVE - Psychic Psummer LP power pop Kim was re-acquainted with theAt their best, Chicago's Cave boil down familiar but disparate branches of psychedelic rock into a sludgy yet nimble whole. Their first album approached different modes like a kid in a candy store, dipping into heavy riffs, hypnotic repetition, and howling noise, but it sprinted and lagged, never pacing itself as expertly as the band does now. Psychic Psummer is comparatively a less immediate listen, but it is a deeper and ultimately more rewarding