Ten Tall Men - Find Your Saint (1988, Vacant Lot)

You were no doubt regaled by Ten Tall Men's 1986 ep, Nickelbrain, back when I posted it some eight years ago.  If that was the appetizer, get ready to feast on the main course.  Find Your Saint extrapolates on the same sonic aptitude of the aforementioned ep - staccato syncopation, palm-muted guitar fills, and abrupt, halting pauses/false endings, with ample deference given to the templates laid out by Gang of Four and especially the Minutemen.  TTM were sticklers for quality control, but that doesn't mean the going here gets a bit samey, especially when FYS is absorbed as a whole.  Ironically, a song dubbed "Dull Moment" is something of a pleasant anomaly here, thanks to Winthrop Eliot Jordan's heightened, melodic chord wrangling.  This piece of wax was a minefield of clicks and snaps, and edited out the more egregious ones as best I could.

01. Dominoes

02. If I Was a Beefy Guy

03. Honor

04. Dull Moment

05. My Last Life

06. Wheels Spin Round

07. This Responsible Life

08. Get Back to Work

09. Mr. Fist

10. Double Heaven

11. Not

12. The Westheads

13. Trust

14. Anxious

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