Toe

Variant CD

Truck Stop Records August 8, 2000

Recorded at Truckstop Produced by David Pavkovic Engineered by David Pavkovic and Joe Ferguson Mixed by David Pavkovic

We have come to expect much of the so-called "uncategorizable" new music coming out of Chicago to be merely elusive or indirect. But indirectness is not something you can accuse Toe leader David Pavkovic of. Witness "Absolutism Two," the first track on the reocrd, "Variant." The slamming, overlapping drums crashing in triple meter against Yoko Noge's sneering, Marianne Faithfull-of-the-Forbidden-Zone rant, is nothing if not pointed. Directly at you. This could be punk rock, this could be real-time jungle, this could be Japanese Taiko drums, so...what the hell is it?

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