SIGHTINGS - Amusers And Puzzlers LP

"The past fifteen years or so have been made so much richer due to existence of Sightings, this NY band who took the no-wave ethos to previously unexplored territory, starting by imploding garage-rock on itself and quickly moving to more alien terrains. Just look at the various labels that released their records and it’s like a list of the best experimental-rock imprints of the current millennium.

Anyway, Amusers And Puzzlers is their final album, recorded around the same time as 2013’s Terribly Well, and it’s a fine way to go out, sort of integrating all their various sonic avenues into one tidy album. Richard Hoffman fiercely transmits other-dimensional morse code via his bass, Jon Lockie triggers sonic booby-traps with his drumming and Mark Morgan scrapes the unnatural out of his guitar while howling, yowling and growling his abstract lyrics. No one does it like Sightings, before or since, and along with my memories of their live shows and previous albums, I will cherish Amusers And Puzzlers." - YGR