If you’re familiar with Chicago’s Dead Rider (or Todd Rittmann’s previous band, U.S. Maple) than you already know all bets are off with what you may get from their shapeshifting art rock. Each release is a new spin on punk at its most intelligent, combining sonic depths and impeccable patience to create music that really rattles your bones, doing it without force and overt heaviness. Their records have always been about presenting what’s possible and how divergent ideas can sound cohesive. And so they’ve done it again with Dead Rider Trio featuring Mr. Paul Williams, a new record on Drag City that offers just that, Dead Rider joining forces with Paul Williams, an experimental/noise musician from London (and as the press info states, once the manager of Crispin Glover). The pairing is met with synchronicity from both sides, each matching the billowy artistic madness of other.
