The Rhythm of Black Lines - Set a Summary Table - Six Gun Lover

Review by: Jennifer Perkins

Can these guys sound any tighter? This is a band who obviously spends hours practicing and perfecting each song. As a result, each song sounds hand crafted. The Rhythm of Black Lines have brought to the masses their second release to date "Set a Summary Table, and apparently it is causing quite a commotion.

Why all the fuss over this band? Is it because of the Paul Newman link or is it the Hades Kick one? Maybe neither or both. Truth be told, this band could have come out of nowhere and anyone off the street would be able to recognize their talent. These guys are such die hard musicians they almost inadvertently alienate pop music losers like me.

Sometimes my boyfriend, the musician in our family (I'm just the critic) and I will have arguments about bands. There are some bands he argues you just have to be a musician to appreciate more than others. He tends to use this analogy about bands that are A) instrumental for the most part and B) have a tendency to play the same part in a song repeatedly, I think he calls it getting into a groove or something. I can appreciate all these things, even if I only have a few years of piano lessons under my belt. Did these guys write an album for musicians because they are such great ones themselves? I guess so. I like vocals. I like to sing along or be sung too. This CD does not go without a whisper, but they are and few between. Sometimes like on the title track "Set a Summary Table" these subtle vocals work in the bands best interest. Not that their first CD was very vocal heavy for that matter, there were just more than on this CD.

Another point of interest my boyfriend and I fight about with the CD is our favorite song. He tends to vote for "Jeep Jackson" just because he likes the chanting and now obligatory by all things coming out of Austin's Bubble studio, hand claps that start up about 6 minutes into this 8 minute long song. My vote goes with the last song "Black Like Figs" where the bass heavy parts and perky guitar that rears it's head meld together perfectly.

Now, just because I can not sing along does not mean I don't like this CD, quite the contrary I know enough about music to know this a wonderful CD that people did, are, and will go ape shit over. I may not want to hang a Duchamp picture in my living room, but I have enough sense to know the guy takes a mean photograph. So go get a little culture and pick up "Set a Summary Table".

READ A REVIEW OF THE RHYTHM OF BLACK LINES S/T CD HERE.

READ AN INTERVIEW WITH THE RHYTHM OF BLACK LINES HERE.

READ WHERE SIX GUN LOVER GOT THEIR NAME FROM HERE.