Floored By Four

(www.chimeramusic.com) Remember when Mike Watt made 90 second songs? Remember when Nels Cline performed in a band that made him make boring music? Remember when Yuka Honda made cute songs about food? Remember when you didn't know who Dougie Bowne is? Well forget all those rememberings, because this art jam power quartet cleans the slate and builds a musical mountain that infects earholes like an alien virus while midwifing the birth of a new sound form and making writers nonsensically mix metaphors! Not exactly rock or noise or prog or jazz or jam or inside-out-Steely Dan-music, this is harder to describe than it is to heartily recommend. I only wish my description could be more florid by a fourth!