Bridge And Tunnel

Bridge And Tunnel

East/West

[4.5/5]

Bridge And Tunnel’s heart sutures are fully on display during the 40-plus minutes of East/West, their debut full-length. With the band members harnessing a chemistry few others ever attain, East/West might bubble with hints of Ghosts And Vodka’s atmospheric math-rock riffage and Hot Water Music’s gruff, multi-vocal emotion, but it’s an otherwise strikingly original and passionately delivered socio-political debut. Bridge And Tunnel will condemn the listener for putting self-involved activities above activism (“How easily we’re pacified by bullshit like TV shows on DVD,” hollers guitarist/vocalist Jeff Cunningham in “Wartime Souvenirs”), but they’re not afraid to turn the criticism inward (“Please bear with me while I try to balance my professional posturing with my punk-rock posturing,” he cautions in “Rubrics”). The color and dynamism of the lows and highs Bridge And Tunnel travel cannot be stressed enough; buy this record. (NO IDEA) Brian Shultz

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