The Ripple Effect: The Music Commentary Radio Show  

By now, you all should know my love for music that’s played just left of center. Music that’s written, played, performed, whatever that’s too avant garde becomes noise to my tender ears. I always like it when my “weird” music has a level of accessibility to it, and by accessibility, I don’t necessarily mean commercial, which always has the connotation of sell out. Nah. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the music that’s filled with unique melodies, but melodies nonetheless, while still being unnaturally heavy or bizarrely off time or unorthodoxly performed. Enter LAW, maybe better referred to as Lucifer At Wait and their brilliantly realized Of Monkeys and Man. Layered with healthy doses of alternative metallic energy, these guys bring a fresh sound into the mix. Utilizing violins in more than a mere textural role, LAW treat my ears with a sound that’s caught somewhere between the heavy crunchiness of Black Album era Metallica and spastic compositional talents System of a Down. Throw in that haunting tone of violin at key points within the rhythms and for their own time in the spotlight during solos, and you get to hear something novel without sounding forced.