Lame Drivers / Woolen Men

***Warped power-pop inspired by freeform radio, int'l psych, classic punk and Guided By Voices. LAME DRIVERS spent much of the past decade in the basement while also playing in other bands like HOME BLITZ and GET HIM EAT HIM. Their side of the EP features two songs that are very different from each other. "Headhunting" channels Mark E Smith, tight 3-piece groove. "Excess" is from an earlier incarnation of the band, feat MATT LEMAY and KEVIN SPARKS, and is a haunting song about about human excesses destroying the planet, and an excessive relationship destroying itself. RIYL Jesus and Mary Chain, shoegaze? THE WOOLEN MEN are three—two Oregon natives and a Washingtonian. They play punk influenced DIY music in the Pac-NW tradition of Dead Moon and the Wipers. Their side reflects their NW punk / NZ pop influences with Deaf Americans, mastered by Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans, Badgerlore and a cover of the Terminals' "Frozen Car."