Squidbucket

Celery City

Trio-battened heavy instrumentalism heaves and lurches through an analog-burnished maze that’s part the Jesus Lizard (“Ole Pickleneck”) and part acid-washed guitar thuggery (“One Armed Bandit”). Long stretches of sonic exploration approach Austin’s Tia Carrera (“Mid Evil Lullaby”), but needling and noodling collide on 8:25 of “High Water Mark.” Epic whaler that is the title track and closing “Captain Schmegal’s March,” with its deep space psych and echoes of Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein,” rally. **.5

This article appears in August 5 • 2011.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.