Big Walnuts Yonder - Big Walnuts Yonder (Sargent House) 2017
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Big Walnuts Yonder is bassist/vocalist Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges), guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco, Nels Cline Singers), drummer Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) and guitarist/vocalist Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos). For all the right reasons, they should be called a supergroup, but according to Mike Watt’s wise words: “It’s worlds colliding”. This is a taunt collection of experimental and unashamedly raw methodic tunes that defies any kind of categorization, a cacophony of genres that goes from proto-punk to free jazz, from noise to psych rock. Uneasy listening at its best but strangely mesmerizing and addictive. Not to mention, the album artwork was made by the influential and legendary artist Raymond Pettibon.