I've only ever encountered this band once before, and that was as the first band on in a concert I was promoting at The Doghouse. What attracted me to them was the way that the majority of the songs would act as a springboard for some great ensemble excursions into a Crimsoid world of progressive rock riffing and soling. Well, for their first EP, they've distilled things into the essence that is the song without any instrumental forays. The result is this three track EP of three-four minute songs that reveal a decidedly David Byrne-meets-Gentle Giant styled lead vocal and a musical area somewhere in the middle of angular King Crimson and twisted early Talking Heads, a melting pot or art-rock and art-punk that screams late seventies CBGB's at the same time as dipping a toe in the murky world seventies prog-rock. The more you hear it, the more endearing it becomes, in this context, and after about play number four, it starts to make sense as you think you see where they're coming from. On this basis, expect to do a lot more pogoing at future concerts from now on.