Sinaloa - Footprints On Floorboards
CD waking records 13
Massachusetts-based guitar and drum
trio Sinaloa have been doing it for years now, and on their second
full-length record, kids are bound to wake up and notice. Footprints
on Floorboards brings the fire of 1990's DIY punk and combines it
with a grown-up sensibility and a lot of life experience. This is
music as lifestyle, and lifestyle as music: deep personal history
meets a life in independent music, and the results are a rare breed
of idealism and practicality. Musically the songs are bursts of
controlled chaos, three vocals weaving around each other, driven
forward by drums and incessant trebly guitar, sudden lurching changes,
and the sudden gasp of melody on top of dissonance.
It's loose music played tight, according
to an incoherent logic that pulls together scattered pieces into
a coherent whole. There's no name for this kind of thing, no familiar
place, but that's what Footprints on Floorboards is really about:
making your own home.
