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PARTS & LABOR - Mapmaker
| Lost At Sea magazine | | Three scruffy men preside over a small stage crammed with drums, guitar, a bass and two keyboards that look as if they were built with scrap parts from an electronic junkyard. Wires and cables are strewn everywhere, duct tape holding together the very essence of this get-up. As the music starts, listeners are overwhelmed by a squall of noise, tinged with terror, like an Alaskan fisherman facing a rogue wave. These music machinists are fittingly called Parts & Labor, and they construct surprisingly inspiring songs, wrenching out striking anthems from the guts of noise and punk....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | My austere editor Chet Betz discourages occasional hot flashes of wide-eyed fan boy gusto, rewarding overexcited first drafts with a severe eye and a rap on the knuckles. Still, risking his (possibly intoxicated but no doubt loving) wrath, let me be up front about this: the moment when the horns take an already raucous and contagious “Fractured Skies” and kick it into hyperspace is worth whatever you see this album selling for. Every subsequent moment is just bonus material....full text |
| | TinyMixTapes | | Mysteries, although always taking on a profound, inexplicable, or secretive quality, do not always have to come on a grand scale. Mysteries resist or defy explanation only when someone has not yet taken the effort to answer them. For example, if one has ever pondered the relatively small-fry quandary of what a new millennium Husker Dü would sound like, they would come up with the answer “Parts & Labor” rather quickly....full text |
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