Music Review: Guardian Alien at Shea Stadium - Review

International Herald Tribune Monday 26th September, 2011

Though Greg Fox isn't a singer, he has been the lungs of the sort-of-metal band Liturgy, from Brooklyn. His drumming often comes in blast-beats, long runs of eighth notes played on snare and cymbal and kick drum, all of them stressed. His playing, like that of Keith Moon and Tony Williams, isn't just a bottom layer, but a dramatic arc that keeps rising in the song. His beats bounce and swing and breathe, and break out of their own enclosures.

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