Blues Control may, with their semi-ironic name, summon the ancient ghosts of rail-ridin' denizens of the Missippi Delta from generations yore, but they're no real bluesman themselves. The duo —guitarist/tape-manipulator Russ Waterhouse, keyboardist Lea Cho— make largely-instrumental jams steeped in the fevered rush of post-punk and the repetitious hypnotism of prime krautrock, albeit with a shitgaze sound palette and a sense of outsider primitivism."Iron Pigs" is barking up a different musical tree, however. For all its winking titular references to Black Sabbath, the songs seems steeped in prog-rock, with futurist synths and quicksilver guitar licks and colosseum-filling grandeur at play. Of course, Blues Control are obviously out to pervert the fossilized form: inviting chaos and decay and letting prog rot from within, its compositional pomposity crumbling with every fried tone and bizarre tape-sputtering fritz-as-frisson.
"Iron Pigs" marks the curious first taste of Valley Tangents, Blues Control's follow-up to 2009's gnarly, snarling Local Flavor, and debut for new label Drag City. And to put this jam in Drag City terms: it lands somewhere between Royal Trux and demented Finnish obscurities Liimanarina.
Blues Control, "Iron Pigs"
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