Lumb Lumb cassette
This was my first introduction to the solo project known as LUMB, and it is a lot to take in at fourteen songs and forty minutes in length. The standard problem that I feel many solo projects have of there not being enough ideas is not even remotely applicable in this case. If anything, I would suggest that the brain-child behind LUMB seems to have far too many ideas. Almost every track on this cassette sounds wildly different from the one before it, but not necessarily in an interesting songwriting kind of way. It sounds more like someone trying to play cover-all on their bingo card of all the different musical genres they wanted to touch upon. From country to new wave, from DILLINGER FOUR-inspired pop punk vocals to DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN herky-jerkiness, from experimental art to rockabilly guitar leads and back again. There are the occasional moments where I am intrigued, but the cool parts just tend to get drowned out by the confusion that inevitably and immediately follows.