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Music: Rock/Pop Old Time Relijun

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Half slappy neo-no wave, half swagger-happy cowpunk, alien rockers Old Time Relijun axe aggressively, hacking at traditional modes of composition until there's nothing left but the stump. Minimalists of a rare, ultra-energetic type, the boys shake the shatooby out of simple riffs, bumping and swaying to slow-plunking tom-tom beats, as trebly guitars spike in and out of sparse, stringy bass lines. Lead singer Arrington de Dionyso also sways back and forth— at times his guttural grunt is demonlike, while at others, he drops the raw, high-pitched squeals of a boozed-out Gordan Gano. While the band's early career was defined by loose, often alienating antics, it's tightened things up just enough to make it out of the Hemlock tonight.

– Andrew Phillips