Admonishing the Bishops

Operating at the fringes of the early 90s alternative boom, this San Francisco collective delivers a bizarre, deeply rewarding fusion of abrasive art-punk and slacker melodicism. The four sprawling tracks prominently feature unconventional tuning, banjo instrumentation, and erratic, multi-part vocal harmonies. The highlight 'Hurricane' is frequently regarded as one of the defining, albeit deeply uncommercial, hidden masterpieces of the era's lo-fi underground.