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For ages, I paid no attention to Nels Cline. It wasn't a conscious decision. It was just - well, he's in a fairly popular band, he's not going to make any interesting music. I'm not so proud a man that several months after the fact, on a day when few people are likely to be reading, I can finally break the bad news that perhaps I was wrong about that. Whatever your thoughts on Wilco might be, as a solo artist he's done some great stuff.

Here's Lowered Boom, from the 2002 album Instrumentals by the Nels Cline Singers. If you're hoping for descriptive truth from one of those, I'd suggest going with the album name rather than that of the band. Lowered Boom is a thundering piece of avant-blues. It contains what the popular musical press refer to as "sweet guitar licks" over some grimy industrial metal bass. It's a sound so dirty you'd think you were on the train leaving north from Birmingham. Or maybe not. Maybe you don't have that frame of reference. In that case you'll probably just think that this is excellent, or something like that. I don't know.

Nels Cline Singers - Lowered Boom