Where This Leads
Barnaby Smith
, December 16th, 2020 09:46
Carlton Melton s latest album is a game of two halves – but it may be their most interesting record yet, finds Barnaby Smith
One of the most interesting things about Carlton Melton’s music is that it is split in two. On each album, from debut
Country Ways onward, there lives a restless conflict between different approaches: the experimental, the avant-garde and the improvisatory jostles for space with some of the more conventional tropes of heavy rock such as bludgeoning riffs and structured songwriting.
Where This Leads, the San Francisco band’s seventh LP, is particularly divided within itself, and it makes for arguably their most compelling and original work yet.