Didn't see any mention of this on the board, but it sounds like it was halfway interesting. Anyone go?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29331-2004Apr20.html 90 Day Men
"Even Time Ghost Can't Stop Wagner," the first cut on 90 Day Men's latest album ("Panda Park") and the opening song of the group's set on the Black Cat Backstage Monday night, is a handy distillation: Dense, intriguing and indebted to art-damaged self-indulgence, it captures the Chicago quintet's approach quite well. The group's 45-minute set was mostly a thick blast of space-rock that conjured the ghosts of Can, Pink Floyd and the heyday of the wah-wah pedal.
Throughout a series of loping, oscillating instrumental passages, the electric piano of Andy Lansangan was often the dominant tone color, upon which the vocals of guitarist Brian Case and bassist Robert Lowe became verbal flotsam. The Men played only five distinct selections, and with the average length of songs like "Too Late or Too Dead" near eight minutes, there was plenty of room for twisting grooves to wash into each other, collapsing in echo, delay and reverb. Case stabbed at his instrument imaginatively throughout, while Lowe and drummer Cayce Key wound big languid circles around an ever-shifting beat.
Despite the elemental appeal of their powerful sound, 90 Day Men's performance was ultimately a little cold. Whether it was the self-absorption that their space-rock orbit required or their songs' abstruse centers, Monday's show was too much like watching a rehearsal where it mattered little whether the audience was there.
-- Patrick Foster
