Holy shit, I'm finally posting something! My excuse for such woeful slacking is that I've been too busy being a miserable grad student, but I don't want Micah to hate me anymore, so here's a fine album for yr listening pleasure. Flower was a late '80s/early '90s band featuring Richard & Ed Baluyut (later of the wonderful Versus), playing moody, dissonant post-punk in the the Mission of Burma vein. Concrete Sky is an anthology of Flower's complete recordings, including 1988's Concrete album & 1990's Hologram Sky, put out by the venerable Simple Machines label. For all you indie rock geeks out there, you might recognize "Torch Song" from Unwound's cover of it on a split 7" with Versus (hey, family tree!), not to mention Tsunami's rendition of "Beauty, Pt. II" from the Simple Machines Inclined Plane 7" compilation. Essential listening for anyone interested in the 1980s American underground scene (Our Band Could Be Your Life, anyone?).Listen up!
