Sightings, 'Through the Panama' (Load)
New York art-noise vets suit up for another mission down below.
By Andy Beta 01.18.08 4:17 AM
A decade into a career spent deconstructing the rock-power-trio format, Sightings continue to excavate the same noisome hole. On their sixth album, the band drill even deeper, abetted this time by pomp-rock motivational speaker Andrew W.K. at the boards. The results remain scabrous but bitingly lucid—you feel every jackhammer jolt and rumble on songs like "Cloven Hoof" and the title track. Even a Walker Brothers cover, "The Electrician," falls under their grinding pall.
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