DIRE WOLVES (ABSOLUTELY PERFECT BROTHERS BAND) - Oceans Of Green LP art punk they graduated from being the

they graduated from being the “pre-Fab Four” to having critics clamoring for their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

sometimes straying almost into furious free jazz passages

The album marks a radical departure from the band’s heavy and noise rock origins and finds them driving toward a more electronic and abstract dimension

Brilliant but short-lived New Zealand legends Nocturnal Projections barely released an album in their lifetime (their studio recordings have been collected elsewhere as 'Complete Studio Recordings') so it's nice to see a release of these live recordings

Should be considered as complimentary to 'Born Bad'

DIRE WOLVES (ABSOLUTELY PERFECT BROTHERS BAND) - Oceans Of Green LP art punk they graduated from being the"From the timbers of Fennario, which are located on some low ground near the Presidio, come Dire Wolves. The two members of this Bay Area sextet with whom I'm most familiar are guitarist, etceteraist, Jeffrey Alexander, a tireless exponent of sub underground psychedelia when he was based in Providence. Mr. Alexander was previously involved with such protean volk psych ensembles at the Iditarod and Black Forest Black Sea, and was an early proponent of