SHEAVES - A Salve For Institution LP

Highly recommended.

The second LP from this inspired Phoenix DIY punk outfit.

"Upstart New York label Dot Dash Sounds have teamed up with Paris' estimable SDZ to bang out this sophomore effort by The Sheaves, an outfit of desert peccaries whose swinley snouts have expertly strung together another string of stinging pearls for thine earholes. If the Placebo Records track team had a miler as lopey as this bunch, those trophy cups would have been perpetually brimming with Champagne's finest export." - Tom Lax, Siltbreeze

"...the last one had a couple of semi-bops, if you can extend your definition of “bop” to include the swampier territories of GBV, the more obstreperous, late-period regions of the Fall. This one is harsher and more confrontational all the way through, its riffs going off like rubber bands made of barbed wire, snapping back to hurt people, yet snapping all the same. The sheaves scrawl in black sharpie on industrial grade sandpaper, emphatic but blurred enough at the edges that you can’t quite make out what’s going on." - Dusted