I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
āUnwound isĀ theĀ best band of the ā90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk,Ā post-rock,Ā indie rock,Ā post-hardcore,Ā slow-core, and experimentalĀ noise. That jumble of subgenres doesnāt say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasnāt stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the ā90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.ā
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really canāt say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. š¤
