WARMER MILKS - "Radish On Light" LP

 Warmer Milks - Radish On Light LP (Troubleman Unlimited, 2006) Top shelf mid-00s 'noise world' nightmare rock from the excavated crawl spaces of subterranean Kentucky, performed by some of the same square-pegs who would go on to form CROSS, Mazozma, Wretched Worst, Teal Grapefruit, Huevos II, etc. This is none of those things though. The Milks were unparalleled. Imagine an off-road, rural trap house commune a la Amon Düül 2 (or dare I suggest Grateful Dead)-meets-VU, uniformly generating a dissonant, head-nodding and not-always-but-often lateral chug, topped with the unsettlingly torched vocals of a Rusted Shut or MItB's Eric Wood...yet even more emotionally unwound than any of those comparisons could suggest. WM's "Radish" is as bold of a debut statement as our fair commonwealth has summoned so far this century -- a 40+ minute cry for help to an empty field, just as the rain is rolling in. Take cover... "Those of you searching for a Cleveland/Detroit post-Monoshock, post-Rocket From