TRUMANS WATER - A Tiny World With the Jitters

This Californian post-hardcore group dealt in a lo-fi noise rock with angular inclinations that come off as a notably unique hybrid of Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, the Swell Maps, and early Sonic Youth. If that sounds like a post-rock dream combination, the prolific group churned out a string of stunning lo-fi albums and singles during the early '90s, but maybe only their more obscure avant-rock musings sheltered them from reaching the larger audiences that their contemporaries Pavement and Sebadoh achieved. The album in question is their second full-length, originally self-released by the band on the Justice My Eye label, and was reissued by Homestead Records in the U.S