1. Waiting 10:09
2. Amy 3:48
3. Maritime Glare 2:58
4. It's Only A Day 'till My Bed Is Warm 1:32
5. Breakin Windows Everywhere 6:30
6. I Saved The Last High Style For You 4:39
7. In Mourning 3:02
8. Silent Like Hands 4:49
9. Editene 6:19
10. Gilman Report 6:45
11. Baionette 9:08
THE ANGEL OF THE SQUARED CIRCLE
With the release of "The Angel of the Squared Circle", the Pedal Steel Transmission emerges with its most commanding performance to date. Songwriters Dan Schneider and Gary Pyskacek have reached a new level of maturity and intensity, and both seem to have found their own distinct voices. Blending and weaving a cohesive story and experience throughout the record, the Pedal Steel Transmission has forged a memoir of lonely nights and harrowing demons, a cinematic experience of sexual and emotional self-destruction seen through the eyes of everyday confusion and anxiety. From the tattered, apocryphal caravan sound of the album’s opener "Waiting" to the quiet awake/asleep sounds of "Amy" and "Maritime Glare", the album unfolds into a beautiful story that ends all too soon. The album’s diversity is soon felt in the razor-wielding cry of "Gilman Report", where the band pushes the limitations and boundaries of standard post-rock. The starvation of "I Saved the Last High Style for You",
and the quiet sonnet of "In Mourning:Reprise" find the listener staring blankly out the window on a pale rainy Chicago afternoon.
“...this band would seem to be making music for the David Lynch film festival of everyone's imagination. While some songs are sprawling impressionistic, amorphous things full of shadows and dreams, when the band falls into more traditional song structures, as on "Amy", the results are just as scintillating.”
Pop Culture Press“...a gorgeously tense nod to Black Heart Procession and Calexico that rests so precariously between sunny, rural prettiness and wrenching dissonance that it could constantly fall either way but somehow never does.”
Pitchfork“...PST flirts with twang and indulges in its share of strum, but these elements are integrated into something cinematic and widescreen, full of weathered ambience and improvisational nuance- with nary a wide-brimmed Stetson or a dusty Dingo in evidence.”
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