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█▓███ ARTIST..: Bridge Club ▐█▐
██▓██ TITLE...: Commander Mandible EP ▐█▐
█▓██▓ LABEL...: Skull Catapult Records ▐█▐
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▒▒▒▓▒ RIP-DATE...: Jan-22-2004 STREET-DATE: 2003 ▐█▐
▒░▒░░ RIPPER.....: Team-ICE SUPPLIER...: Team-ICE ▐█▐
░░▒░▒ TYPE.......: EP GENRE......: Indie ▐█▐
▒▒░▒░ TRACKS.....: 06 SiZE.......: 24,9 MB ▐█▐
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█▒▒▒▓ QUALITY....: 192kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo ▐█▐
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█▓█▓█ URL........: n/a ▐█▐
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█▐02 █▐ I Didn't Know... ▌█ 03:08▌█ ▐█▐
█▐03 █▐ Baby's New Boots ▌█ 03:01▌█ ▐█▐
█▐04 █▐ Last Year's Prom ▌█ 03:04▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐There's nothing outwardly dangerous about the wiry garage anthems of ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐the Minneapolis trio Bridge Club. Yes, it's true that their former lead▌█ ▐█▐
█▐singer arm-wrestled a man twice his size and won the heart of a hard- ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐drinking woman during his stint as an Elimidate contestant. And there ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐are rumors that the band's frontman position may soon be filled by ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐talented hip-hop absurdist Ice-Rod, a man known for rapping about ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐slitting his wrists with a bus pass. But in their current three-piece ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐incarnation, they sing about nothing more risque than proms and go-go ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐boots, and the only time they use the word "blow" is when it's followed▌█ ▐█▐
█▐by "my mind." None of Hell's shameful traits are cultivated here, and ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐the cheery Blue Cheer vibe of Bridge Club's guitar riffs makes it easy ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐to view that last shot glass as half full, even when it's empty. With ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐their apathy toward nihilism, Hell should be the one to help Bridge ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Club help themselves, maybe in the service of trashing a hotel room or ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐two--the band projects such an aura of non-prima-donnaism on stage that▌█ ▐█▐
█▐you suspect they make their own beds at the Motel 6 before the maid ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐Yet something about their music, ignited by the spark of '70s punk, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐still threatens to self-destruct. Current lead singer Joe Werner ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐strikes up a conversation with the band like most people strike up a ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐match. Bill Rammer's bass lines push Werner's levee-breaking howl ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐upward until it crumbles like cracked glass turning back into sand. On ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐the band's excellent new EP, Commander Mandible (Skull Catapult ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Records), influence from any other era is subsumed into their Me-Decade▌█ ▐█▐
█▐hustle: Drummer Mike Koch pounds down the made-for-walking stomp of ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Nancy Sinatra on "Baby's New Boots" and Rammer captures the sugar-pie ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐bass lines of the Four Tops on "Last Year's Prom." But Werner's there ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐all along, chugging and swishing his lyrics, spraying the chorus right ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐back at you, his screech unearthing the angry voice of Detroit from the▌█ ▐█▐
█▐dead leaves on the dirty ground. He's not just seeing red, and he's not▌█ ▐█▐
█▐just dressed up in White Stripes--he's singing the blues. ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐Can such a retro-inspired music implicitly challenge the rock history ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐that heavily informs its sound? "Overwhelmed, it seems, by the mountain▌█ ▐█▐
█▐of recorded musical history they've inherited," Joe Hagen recently ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐wrote in Newsweek, "the age bracket known as Generation Y... have opted▌█ ▐█▐
█▐to forsake the subversion of rock and roll (as Jack Black says in the ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐movie School of Rock, 'sticking it to The Man') for harmless, boutique ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐replicas of the past." But Hagen's moldy thesis--The Revolution is ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Dead/Rock Ain't What It Used to Be--is far more conservative than any ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐of the music he's criticizing. The argument has been used so many times▌█ ▐█▐
█▐throughout the history of music journalism that blaming a band for not ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐"sticking it to The Man" has become The Man's favorite cause. ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐Bridge Club may rank with Minneapolis's best "boutique replica" bands ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐precisely because their subversion tactics aren't just bumper stickers ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐slapped down on Werner's tongue. In fact, the garage opener "Gash ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Hound" makes the best argument for not making an argument. "You're ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐looking like you're Orpheus killing like a Cream Judge," Werner yowls, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐his hyper-distorted squall pushing teeth-first through the amps. ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Orpheus and the Cream Judge appear in the liner notes to Bob Dylan's ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Highway 61 Revisited, where the ever-elusive bard pens an impossible ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐allegory where phony philosophizing makes time stand still. Perhaps ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐this is a form of protest music in itself, a way to pay tribute to ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Dylan and then use his own shrouded hermeneutical devices against him. ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐On the topic of saying very little, music can say so much. ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐Flipping back through the old tomes of rock, Bridge Club make the ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐method more important than the message. Within the fuzzy blues ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐explosion of their music, their words serve as symbols, a series of ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐pop-culture ciphers waiting to be decoded by anyone with a hand stamp ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐and a ticket stub. Their songs seem designed to deconstruct language ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐into a rush of sound. And, like Richard Hell's three-step program, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐their music warns their devotees that every musician doesn't ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐necessarily say--or play--what he means. (citypages.com) ▌█ ▐█▐
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