AMERICAN DEVICES - The Game We Never Win 7"

Highly recommended.

American Devices are the best Montreal has to offer and have been since 1979. As once put by esteemed string strangler Chris Burns : The pairing of Trembles/Labelle guitar stylings rank up there with Reed/Morrison, Quine/Julian, Verlaine/Lloyd, Thunders/Sylvain, Ivy/Gregory, Ivy/Powers, Moore/Ranaldo, Young/Whitten, Leary/Haynes, Mercer/Million or any of the Beefheart duos.

These two new tunes are the Devices in top form, widdled by time to the essential 4-part unit. Both songwriters deliver in their respective lanes, and the rythm section kicks the can along with inventive gusto.

In a warped world, American Devices oeuvre would be life bending fodder for international bonehead punks, b-movie fanatics and prog nerds alike, but in this reality, they are banished to a profitless deal on the world's least respected underground records label.

Lucky for us, misery loves company.