Eleventh Dream Day Riot Now!

• Damned Tree
• Cold Steel Grey
• Satellite
• That's What's Coming
• Divining for Water
• Tall Man
• Sonic Reactor
• Away With Words
• Maybe This Time

Chicago-based indie vets Eleventh Dream Day return with its tenth album, also the group's first since 2006's Zeroes and Ones. The familiar faces of Rick Rizzo, Janet Beveridge Bean, Douglas McCombs (Tortoise) and Mark Greenberg go for a lean approach to (what one assumes is still) the group's signature textural muzack by using mostly first takes and few overdubs. The band's label also points out the record's politically anxious tone as songs cover the conflict between the United States's desire for change and irreconcilable need for creature comforts. He~avy, man.

Abstract by Dan Nishimoto