This is stirring, epic, loveless rock and roll, tainted with dark imagery and the black noise of a fever dream. This is the Pedal Steel Transmission's definitive statement of folk melody and ambient guitar bombast.
Tracklist
1. Sorted
2. Self Service Rest
3. I Only Got 1 Hour Of Sleep Last Night
4. Tweakin The Bible
5. Para Ella
6. Her Dream
7. Half As Well
8. The Sun Bites Its Tongue
9. Sandy Toes
10. Sempiternal Tryst Detente
Review
"...Imagine Sonic Youth performing as the backup band for Waylon Jennings after he took a fistful of heavy psychedelics..." -- Terry Egan, Ink 19, April 2002
"...the eerie space blues "Sempiternal Tryst Detente" pushed me gradually to the edge of my seat." -- Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader, Jan 17, 2002
"Pedal Steel Transmission are experts at finding gorgeously pristine passages of tinkling guitar and crooning pedal steel." -- Matt Fink, Delusions of Adequacy, May 2002
About the Artist
The Pedal Steel Transmission was active in the Chicagoland area from 1998 to 2005. This is a blend of unexpected dynamics and ambient distress. The band wears its influences on its chest, from the Velvet Underground to Can, to other more folk-inspired artists as Japancakes or John Fahey, but with a vocal style all its own. The underlying current is still rock and roll, but the nature is improvisation. The band frequently performs amidst 8 and 16mm films that add to the group's fractured approach to songwriting. Their first album, "That Ain't Right" was released in March of 2000. The second, "In the Winter, It makes the Dead Grass Look Green" was released on July 19th, 2002. The Album was recorded at Chicago's Blaise Barton Studios, and focuses on the band's more emotional material. The addition of drummer Don Ogilvie (formerly of Denver's Felt Pilotes, and Crestfallen) has propelled the band's music to new heights of energy and complexity.