New album from Tomahawk

Paper Thin Walls has "Sun Dance," the first single off the new Tomahawk album, Anonymous. PTW's Christopher Weingarten doesn't really like it, though, at least partially because of the concept behind the album - "Sun Dance" and the 12 other tracks on Anonymous are their interpretation of Native American tribal music.

The first two albums from Tomahawk, compared with this one, is like the difference between Faith No More and Mr. Bungle. In fact, this track wouldn't be all that out of place on either Album of the Year or California. But the sudden move from the structured verses and choruses on Tomahawk and Mit Gas to the kind of perfect weirdness Bungle was up to for so long is still jarring. The movie theme idea worked out well for Fantomas, and based on "Sun Dance" it sounds like it'll do fine here. Even so, WhineyG has a point - why bother with "the musical equivalent of "Apocalypto?" That's a pretty dead on point, though it could still seem more dead on 10 hours from now, once I've listened to the entire album.

Here's the link to the review, an mp3 of "Sun Dance" and a brewing discussion of the album.

And there will be a review of Anonymous up here soon.