Maillist
FOCUS ON: Hubcap City
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- Label: Table of the Elements >>
- Genre: Avant Garde/Experimental
In between and underneath Atlantas rapidly gentrifying cityscape lies the withering remains of a much older Southern city. In this sagging post-urban panorama is where local trio Hubcap City (From Belgium) finds refuge.
Since 2000, the rickety outfit has drawn inspiration from its surroundings, fashioning desolate and deranged junkyard folk songs. Made up of singer/guitarist Bill Taft (formerly of Smoke, the Jody Grind), guitarist Matthew Proctor, and drummer Will Fratesi (Cat Power, Smoke), the group makes music that is a cluttered and verdant anomaly. Tafts unwavering voice mixes with a percussive rattle pounded out on large bits of found metal debris from loosely tuned steel strings to a metal I-beam. All of these elements add force to Tafts apocalyptically Dylan-esque laments.
