Pentagram Ring

I discovered this band by listening to one of their cuts on a Matador Records sampler CD set "Everything's Nice". That song was "Flight '96" from the "Ride The Fader" CD, and it totally turned me on to this band.I think the "Pentagram Ring" EP CD is worth owning for the title cut alone. The overall guitar work of Matt Sweeney and Clay Tarver is swirling and dense, and every note played serves a purpose, which must be to tear your mind into various pieces. (A friend of mine described the music of My Bloody Valentine that way.) When you get it back together, you want more! (And sadly, like MBV, this band put out far too little music...)Like their Matador labelmates Guided By Voices during the mid-90's, Chavez produced music that contains many "earworms"... that is, the musical stuff that gets in your head and stays in there for days. Some of Chavez's music is reminiscent of Guided By Voices re. the vocals, vocal harmonies and melodies, but this has a more beefed-up instrumental sound with some incredible rough-edged, churning guitar textures and solos.If you can find this, buy it... don't miss out!

Found a used copy. You should too. This band put out a total of an hour and a half of music on disk. All of it is superior. For crying out loud, how can you go wrong with a band whose guitar player came up with the "Got Milk" ad campaign. "The Nerve" is as good a song as there is. Really. It is. This band is better than your favorite band. Yup. Deal with it. Are you catching my drift? Just get all 3 CDs while you're at it. Get them. Now. Do it.