cs022 The Tightening

Latenight confession conducted in a dark bar with spinning eyes and wildly waving arms, set to garage-rock rave-ups and sixties pop with sharp lyrical left turns. The Tightening is made of the gleeful abandon that thrives in basements, stacked with motorik 4-on-the-floor post-punk beats and a particular boredom for love songs, a democratic ‘band’ record made from spur of the moment jams married to tangled lyrical disenchantment, shiny arpeggios and brittle beauty.