Sightings
City of Straw

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Mark Morgan, Richard Hoffman, and Jon Lockie have produced a whole mess of brain-wrecking, mercilessly distorted horror over the course of the decade-plus they’ve been together. Albums like 2002’s Michigan Haters and Sightings, 2003’s Absolutes, and 2005’s End Times are first-rate scorchers to rival the scorchiest of them. But delving into their back catalogue over the past few weeks, I find their most impressive, most unsettling efforts to be those more relatively subdued.