Artist Bear Claw

Bear Claw’s mathy, mid-tempo noise-rock plays like a Corey Rusk mixtape—not only do its three full-lengths recall rhythm-heavy mid-’90s Touch & Go standard bearers like Shellac and Arcwelder, but each album has been recorded with Shellac’s Steve Albini in his Electrical Audio studio, giving extra huge-room life to Scott Picco’s deliberate, pulverizing drums. The twin bass guitars of Rich Fessler and Rob Raspolich snake around each other sprung from a novelty peanut can—covered in fuzz and likely to explode into scraping feedback when
you least expect it—but it’s no gag when topped by Fessler’s screams of “I wanted you to die!” on “832,” from the 2004 debut, Find

The Sun. Bear Claw visit Club Garibaldi in support of the new Refuse This Gift, its third stomper for Chicago’s Sickroom Records. 

Updated 11/03/2010