The Unnecessary Gunpoint Lecture
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A man walks into a coffee shop. Ph.D. in English, ski-masked, Glock-toting, angry that he can’t find a job after 11 years of college, he tilts his gun gangsta-style, but instead of asking for cash from the register, he launches into his under-appreciated dissertation: “Rhetorical Functions Of Language And Media In Graphic Novels: Effects Of Meta-discourse On Readers’ Attitudes.” The pensive barista (also an English major) ignores him and simply hands over the money. If our robber wanted to know how to cram all those convoluted, near-gibberish thought patterns into a short act of spluttering anger, he might get psyched with a few songs from local math-core outfit The Unnecessary Gunpoint Lecture, which plays The Frequency tonight. Like just about any band that claims Dillinger Escape Plan as an influence, it's bound to fall a little short in its quest to masterfully cram each track with dozens of squiggling riffs and malignant switchbacks. On the upside, its song structures and shrieked vocals evoke both debased wretchedness and the pain of thinking too much.
