Basehead - In The Name of Jesus

Michael Ivey can program a drum machine to sound like that old horror story where all the prisoners are locked up in a huge cell block that moves on a track inside a mountain. They all pull together because they must, because each prisoner knows that if the cell block doesn't go around, he might be the one who doesn't get the rotten cabbage rolled down the food chute and only the newsiest scream at the thought. Thankfully that only happens a few times here, most notably on "Amen," and when Jay Nichols comes banging arrhythmically on some real skins, it's such an enormous relief that somebody exists, somebody feels in the middle of mixes so dense you strain the brain and not the ears, to catch the sound before it skulks around the corner down the block. Read More