THE FEAR AND TREMBLINGTHE FEAR AND TREMBLING

This Old Earthquake

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This New York band’s second full-length finds singer-guitarist Ryan Stimpson, multi-instrumentalist Adam Bains and drummer Morgan Loy (here abetted by bass player and percussionist Charlie Kessenich) tightening its grooves and reining in some of the My Bloody Valentine-ish expansiveness of 2007’s The Fear and Trembling’s Octopus. Still, this is an act that follows its instincts into unexpected song forms—the longest track on This Old Earthquake, the six-and-a-half-minute “Once You Go,” features its most fragmentary lyric. Bains’ words are alternately psychedelic and straightforward (everything from “The bayonet, the foaming horse” to “Light up my cigarette, I need a pick-me-up”), while Loy’s driving drums give the whole affair a confident kick.

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