SHOTGUN CLUB The portents are not all good here. I mean, really, what is the point of checking out another band that draws on post-punk from 30 years ago in 2011, seeing as how we've been inundated with much of the same over the past years? Maybe your ears need a rest from all those stadium-sized choruses. None of today's well-known time travelers seem inclined to make scary music based on this tradition. We live in such a user-friendly, consumer-centric world now. Shotgun Club is some uneasy stuff. It's minimalist and stark, offering no easy walls of sound for ears to climb. The washes of reverb are unsettlingly stark, not comforting. This is a dark, dark dub and primitive music. Repetitious and insistent. Instead of the new car smell, you get the smell of an underground parking garage, with the the echoing footsteps of someone following you in the dark thrown in for good measure. Shotgun Club will sneak up on you. http://www.myspace.com/clubshotgun