Margot & Nuclear So & So's - Rot Gut Domestic (Audio CD - 2012)

The band's involvement with Brian Deck and Tim Rutili, each a member of both Califone and Red Red Meat, is apparent from the first strains of the trudging album opener "Disease Tobacco Free." The song's fuzzy lope is an updated take on the feedbacky slowcore of '90s bands like Codeine or Red Red Meat themselves. Kickoff single "Prozac Rock" follows this '90s-heavy influence with a lazy sunburst of overdriven guitars and west coast imagery that end up sounding like a happier Afghan Whigs than the overblown Arcade Fire-isms of earlier records. There are still more than enough internet-era influences at play, however. Any band so obsessed with filmmaker Wes Anderson that they name an album after his favorite Muppet is going to have some unshakable traces of Radiohead, Bright Eyes, and, well, Wes Anderson soundtracks.

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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Disease Tobacco Free 4:07
2 Books About Trains 2:45
3 Shannon 3:10
4 Prozac Rock 3:27
5 A Journalist Falls In Love With Deathrow Inmate #16 3:36
6 Frank Left 3:28
7 Fisher of Men 3:42
8 Arvydas Sabonis 3:20
9 Coonskin Cap 3:51
10 Ludlow Junk Hustle 4:02
11 The Devil 4:01
12 Christ 3:27