NEW ALBUM REVIEW:
Marriage + Cancer "Start from an End"

  If one were to look for the Marriage + Cancer's major musical influences you would quickly find them on their sweatshirted sleeves.  For example, "Comeuppance" breeds Nirvana's monster sound with tightly laced guitar and organ interworkings. The adept and nasty  use of chords and turnarounds in "Downstairs Children" sound  like a Rat Fink supercharger running out of control in Sleepy Hollow.  Erin Schmith's lithe and ample keyboard sounds figure heavily into "Nobody's Man", http://soundcloud.com/darquechristal/when-i-get-hi/s-GYMPP/s-GYMPP the air with necessary melodic weight while Wiley Hickson, the cymbal and snare scientist himself, concocts a sinister 3/4 dervish on "Health is imposing" that rocks Robert Comitz's ghost call into the afterlife. Waiting there is Jheremy Grigsby like a low frequency monolith, delivering a healthy foundation to songs like "Start from an End",  a collective vibration not dissimilar to the mighty Rentals or perhaps our beloved Breeders.
  
For those who like their melancholy with a touch of math, this is a place where everyone knows your name. Don't let me be misunderstood though, these sounds are HEAVY! The crunchy guitars are literally eating the reverb plate alive!  A touch of Grunge you say? Perhaps. But if you decide to call Portland your home you wear that tag like a badge of honor. Marriage + Cancer wouldn't have it any other way and they back up their meaty fervor throughout this excellent LP.

Marriage + Cancer tour and perform quite often, playing with respectable groups like Ty Segall, White Fence, Harlem, Grass Widow, Crystal Stilts, The Intelligence, Nodzzz and many more. Seeing them live is a must and if you are lucky (and you will be) they will even serenade you in Portuguese!!

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