TARTUFI: US UPON BUILDINGS UPON US
When I picked up Tartufi's latest CD, Us Upon Buildings Upon Us, I pointed out to my editor that when a band's press release calls their music "experimental rock,' it's usually code for "we haven't learned to play our instruments yet." Most experimental rock hits my ears like cats being strangled, but I decided to take a flyer on Tartufi.
Fortunately for me, Tartufi knows what they're doing. Though the vocals alternate between reedy and nasal, the music more than makes up for it. The San Francisco duo uses complex song structures to build what can only be described as sonic collages, employing unusual instrumentation and dynamic shifts to …
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