Like Jimi Hendrix, Lightning Bolt, The White Stripes, and The Bad Plus getting into a fistfight, Sprightly Moans' music is direct rock and roll that rests uncomfortably above a volcanic litima, not unlike the undercurrent one detects throughout Charles Mingus' excellent catalog. Although the band presents itself through a veneer of typographic stillness and birth-of-the-cool fashion, it nurtures a spark of nihilism that we all yearn for in a rock and roll band; It's music that's ready to throw down, give it all up, and burn everything in sight.

experimental roots music, sound art, electronica



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