Joe Piccirillo (Minimum Table Stacks)

Shake Chain’s songs are populated with cowboys

In contrast to the first volume

The latter two pieces feature contributions by Schönheit’s wife Katharina Dargel (Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) on viola

and Deadline

THE TUBS - Cotton Crown LP Math Rock Joe Piccirillo (Minimum Table Stacks)With "Cotton Crown" the band expands their sound palette to include a kaleidoscopic range of influences: from soulful pub rock to HSKER D aggression to melancholic sophisto pop, everything is there. As Pitchfork noted, THE TUBS see the jangle as a "vast world of moods and muses" and "Cotton Crown" shows them exploring this world further, creating a distinctive Tub ular sound in the process. This is not least due to the vocal performance of Owen 'O'