Shame Engine / Blood Pleasure
This record features a large cast of musicians from the outfit’s past and its present helping the band’s founder and sole constant Brian J Sulpizio achieve his idiosyncratic vision – a sound and ethos he’s been kicking around, retooling and finessing for more than 15 years, a few years after moving to Chicago from his native Defiance, Ohio.
From song to song the band’s sound encapsulates detail-rich pop songs, extended jamming inspired by Chicago’s free jazz legacy and devastatingly potent country-folk tunes. Sulpizio has never been hung up on genre but his imagination and musicianship has allowed him to bring far-flung ideas to beautiful fruition.
