It would be a very long stretch if I called this "stoner rock", but it does feature Nate Carson aka Nate Mountain (drummer for Witch Mountain and long time member of StonerRock.com). But I will guarantee you this - if you listen to it when you're stoned, it will rip your head off - in one way or another!!

Equipped with a synthesizer that sounds as if it has rusted and a drum kit that clearly fears for its life, the Portland, Ore., duo Point Line Plane twitches along the lonely, jagged crevice between new wave and speed metal. Where that particular pit resides I can't be sure, but it's definitely not inviting. Vocalist Josh Blanchard conjures, at turns, a pill-popping poofter circa 1982 and a slavering, gravel-crusted hellhound. Either way, his voice is riveting, and the music -- crashing, funereal organs, electric warbles, atonal repetition, storms of cymbals, and relentless, rattling bass drums -- falls together with an eerie precision found only in great pop songs.

Point Line Plane rock the darkwave vein hard for fellas who come armed with only a drum kit and a synth. They keep things chilly and menacing and kind of raw and unhinged at the same time � picture an angsty Hella or threadbare Trans Am hooked on Sisters of Mercy or Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. Singer-keyboardist Josh Blanchard rags on subjects such as art, trapped feelings, and disco, while Witch Mountain member Nathan Carson tries his darndest to sound like a drum machine.

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