LITTLE BEAR “Live” (Third Ham Records)

Two dudes. Breathy vocals. Two guitars. Finger-picky. Twenty-two guitar pedals. Zero riffs. Zero earworms. Hollow? Sparse? Pretty? Prozaic? Sounds a whole helluva lot like Horn-of-Plenty era Grizzly Bear most times; others, the occasional Grateful Dead feeling. Not bad. Not good. Just is.

http://guesswhossleeping.bandcamp.com/

and/or

http://thirdhamrecords.bandcamp.com/

- - Jacob An Kittenplan

TOMATO FACE - Live (Third Ham Records) and Demo (Third Ham Records)

What if Keith Morris and Les Claypool made an art rock band together? What if Keith decided not to scream as much but to rap about food and whatever else popped into his head instead? I’m sure out there in the bowels of the internet, the fan fiction written by an overzealous weirdo exists. But if you don’t feel like digging for it just listen to Tomato Face.

Does that sound like the type of thing that turns you, the reader, on? Why am I asking so many questions? Stream samples from both tapes below.

Stream: https://thirdhamrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tomato-face-live-rsd-4-18-15

Stream: https://thirdhamrecords.bandcamp.com/album/2015-demo

-- Roy Blumenfeld