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Album of the day: Keelhaul – Triumphant Return to Obscurity

Posted on Monday, August 31st, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Hellbound: Perhaps because their last release, Subject to Change Without Notice was released six years ago, coupled with the music industry’s short-term memory loss – not really anyone’s fault, as a plethora of albums are released every week – the understated brilliance of the Cleveland, Ohio quartet has largely gone unnoticed.
On the other hand, Keelhaul is not known for making user-friendly music, and perhaps the aptly titled Keelhaul’s Triumphant Return to Obscurity (out August 18th on Hydra Head Records) signifies that.

Keelhaul - Triumphantly Return To Obscurity

Keelhaul - Triumphantly Return To Obscurity

I’m not going to front – besides listening to a couple of tracks from previous albums, this was the first album of theirs I listened to front to back. But recently I had the great fortune of seeing them play in Brooklyn (a.k.a Hipster Hell) and their live performance – this is going to sound like an odd description of a band that consists of four thirty-something, very average dudes – was electrifying and refreshingly different.

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