Bone Cellar's latest CD Lost in the Light of Day is another sneaky attempt to push "intelligent" lyrics and 3 chord songs on a public more in tune with such great bands as Bush and Better Than Ezra, not to mention Possum Dixon. Or the Billy Pumpkin Experience. OK, they don't shoot heroin, they don't smash their instruments, and they think REM sucks along with Mudhoney. So how are we supposed to categorize them, anyway? Songwriting influenced by The Stooges, Husker Du, The Velvets, Creedence, Rudimentary Peni, and Al Green. An enormous "rock" production courtesy of Stuart Hallerman (engineer for Evil Stig, Seaweed, The Posies, Soundgarden) but recorded almost entirely live in the studio. (Like, no recording the drums for a week and the guitar players spending three days on each solo overdub.) The whole project was completed, finished, vocals and all, in under three days! The only "it's kind of like... "description one would dare venture forth with would be that like Ellensburg greats The Screaming Trees, the studio performances --no matter how intense--are nothing compared to the adrenaline hyped live shows they put on. This record has all the raw energy and pop sensibilities of Bone Cellar's earlier work without the, uh, "lo-fi" trappings of their previous CD. (Fuck, it worked for people like Guided by Beer, but did anybody get it when Bone Cellar did it? Nooooo, they just said it sounded funny.) So what we're trying to say here, is like, they've sold out, dude. No doubt this time everyone'll say it sounds too clean or something. Oh well, call it straight forward folk/punk songs with a band playing the shit out of them. Just don't call before noon.

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