JOSS/If Not For the Hovering... (CD10). Joss groove smoothly on the Beck-smart "Rumour of a Monkey Clown" and 'My Own Ghost", spend the afternoon around a bong with Luna, Television, Dumptruck and Guided By Voices on "Gingko", "Good Grace" and the orgasmic "mm", and a lost evening in a cheap motel lounge for the shuffling "Careless" and whiskey-and-chaser ruminations "Good Weather" and "Mooncake".
Exorcising an adolescence-worth
of painful awakenings and slowly dawning realizations via moody, all-or-nothing
emotional explosions expressed as musical slow burns, guitarist/vocalist
Ambrose Liu, bassist Michael Pasuit and drummer Chris O'Donovan, in addition
to the above cited influences, give subtle props to Radiohead, The Handsome
Family, Sparklehorse, Cracker, VoleBeats, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Willard
Grant Conspiracy and The Sidewinders to create something as uniquely Joss
as it is incredibly listenable.
.~ Al Muzer