Giant Haystacks / We Are Being Observed

Smart Guy

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CD
$10.25
SMART 016 CD
655035101620
Street Date:
May 11th, 2004
Ship Date:
May 3rd, 2004

GIANT HAYSTACKS are a trio from Oakland, California that favors short songs and short sets. This lot proves that a band can play minimalist music with topical/intelligent lyrics without sounding overbearing and pretentious (or like they're from Williamsburg). Fourteen tracks of urgent, sharp, somewhat oblique rock that eschews all pretense. "The Giant Haystacks' angular snot-nosed punk sounds like it could've come from Boston in '83 (makes it all the more endearing)"—David Shawn Bosler Village Voice