#NowPlaying | Bill Orcutt, ‘The Anxiety of Symmetry II’

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From the Miami noise trio Harry Pussy to solo and quartet music, Bill Orcutt has spent decades fire-bombing conventional acceptance of what we consider to be guitar-based music. But adherents hoping for any of Orcutt’s steel-string immolations might need to swing at a curveball with The Anxiety of Symmetry. The Anxiety of Symmetry by Bill Orcutt Like previous “counting albums,” …

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Now Playing | Stella Kola, “Rosa”

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Stella Kola by Stella Kola The eponymous debut from Stella Kola is a curveball from an already-unpredictable roster of underground U.S. musicians who are as provincial — in this case, the weird grottos and orchards of Massachusetts — as they are inscrutable. Led by Robert Thomas (Sunburned Hand of the Man) and Beverly Ketch (Bunwinkies) the album opens with “Rosa,” …

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