SML – How You Been CD hardcore looms large and stands tall

looms large and stands tall next to the efforts of better-known contemporaries like Sonic Youth and Swans

and it’s (sorry) cookin’

“Push Ups” — which features vocals from Jehnny Beth — is pure muscle music

a string of super cool singles: ‘Big Gay Heart’

this precept has changed considerably

SML – How You Been CD hardcore looms large and stands tallSML is the quintet of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Their second album, How You Been, finds the supergroup of prolific composer producers pushing ever further into the hyperrealist, collectivist approach to music creation nascently explored on their debut Small Medium Large, which was lauded as awe inspiring by Glide, exuberant by the Los Angeles