The Lentils
Brattleboro Is Flooding
"Luke Csehak sounds like a man who has had some troubles. But like the weird alchemy that made Todd Rundgren's early '70s sides so crucial, this new Lentils album manages to work as a damn-near-joyful explosion of (or maybe from) pent-up emotion. And it sounds beautiful. As he demonstrated ably with his former band, Happy Jawbone, Luke's creative engine is a weirdly canted turbine of distemper. His best songs are always moving along and falling apart at the same time, and so it is here. Like all…
My Pillow Lava Part Negative One: Legitamate Asmr / Live From Turner's Falls MA.
"As the Lentils shift their lip-movements to the land of the rising sun (Cali), they have prepared a final kiss for the New England-based fans who have loved Luke Csehak through the many pangs of his early iterations. Half of the record is a studio recording, continuing the emotional saga begun on the Lentils' 2014 debut LP (FTR 150LP). The music is a bit more scrambled and broken this time. The riffs are sometimes buried under more outsider confabulation than we're used to, as though everyone i…
My Lava Pillow Part One: My Deaf Son
First physical evidence of the "band" that entered the room when Happy Jawbone departed. And it's a beaut. Pressed on clear vinyl with a silkscreen on the blank side (a la Albert Ayler's Bells on ESP), packed with a 16-page book of Luke Csehak's notebook fragments, the record is a compendium of ideas that were once lost but are now found. For live performance, The Lentils have now assumed some sort of physical presence worthy of their sound's wide hips. But at the time of this recording, the pro…