Georgian band The Rock *A*Teens returned at the end of June with a new album, their sixth in all (and first for the best part of twenty years), appropriately entitled Sixth House, on Merge Records. It's a full on Gothic Mansion of a record in the proper Southern sense, occasionally veering rather too much to the Eddie Vedder mode of expression for my particular tastes but elsewhere more pleasingly setting off reminders of early R.E.M. and particularly Document. Also Sub Pop's Arbor Labor Union, whose I Hear You album wandered down similar tracks a couple of years back.
The three tracks here should give you a picture of where I feel it's at its best. Frayed, clanging and somehow holding itself together against the odds. Haunted, full-blown and defiantly out there.
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