Okay, so in order to save face after posting that last album, I'm going to post Pell Mell's Flow. I'm not sure if this band was ever popular or not, but they're pretty rad. I've been listening to them for a good while now and all of their early albums are solid. Mainly an instrumental group from Portland, OR. They were definitely ahead of their time; preempting the post-rock movement. This album was released on SST records in 1991. Similar and related to the Halo Benders.
"Their music could be seen on some levels as a forerunner of post-rock, sharing its eclecticism and fusion of acoustics and electronics, but shying away from its more self-conscious avant-gardisms and free-form qualities. Instead, contrary to their name, Pell Mell was melodic and usually tightly structured, much like the instrumentals of the early rock & roll era. In fact, those instrumentals -- especially surf guitar and its formative influences, like Link Wray and Duane Eddy -- were a palpable influence on the group. However, not wanting to be pigeonholed as mere revivalists, they switched up their attack with touches of funk, punk, Krautrock, dub, and vintage ambient, among other sources, which resulted in an atmospheric, effects-laden sound that was certainly aided by its creators' production prowess." -All Music Guide
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