1. Old Arsenic And Lace 5:48
2. Wine And Dine 8:39
3. Sunday Brunch 2:47
4. Dear Old Dr. LaRue 4:59
5. Two-Bit Gravedigger's Lament 6:50
6. Industry Standard 4:41
7. Industry Standard 4:41
8. If I Knew You Better, I Would Sell You More Stuff 5:29
9. Fishnets 4:42
10. Long Gone 13:31
11. De La Quitter 7:34
The 2000 debut of the Pedal Steel Transmission. Songwriters Dan Schneider and Gary Pyskacek duel it out song for song in an ecstatic spazz-out of genres: Irreverent rockabilly a la Pixies, straight up country with a flare for 70’s revivalism (Flying Burrito Brothers, Zappa, NRPS). The most striking aspect of this album is the soaring guitar interplay. Pedal Steel mingles with John McLaughlin and Sonny Sharrock bursts, spazz-outs and improvisations that remind you more of Alan Licht or Thurston Moore than of Carl Perkins. This is Pedal Steel at its rawest and care-free- reverent to the failing Chicago alt-country tradition with one hand, planning a stab or two with the other.
“...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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