Poem Rocket, Psychogeography (CD)

The weird trashy sound of 2000's Psychogeography somehow flatters the dark material—it sounds like it could have come out on Homestead in 1987, or maybe even SST? It also manages to capture Poem Rocket at their tightest and most powerful. Some conceptual and acoustic songs bump up against their more typical style of dark, mid-tempo (or occasionally fast) heavy rock. It reminds me of the Gordons, My Dad is Dead, and Mission of Burma, and having listened to it for 10 years, I don't think my friendship with the band is the cause of my continuing fondness for Psychogeography.