The Austin-based experimental sextet known as The Young Mothers are releasing their second album this week, Morose .   Currently based in Austin, The Young Mothers tie together backgrounds as regionally varied as Texas, Chicago, New York, and Norway, engaging their multiple influences into a cross-genre synthesis of protest music and aural turbulence. As if to illustrate this perfectly, for the single "Black Tar Caviar," The Young Mothers compose a discordant, rhythmic tug of war that attempts to merge jazz-based improvisation with the bare-knuckle assault of hardcore or powerviolence.  Somewhat akin to the avant sonics and noise-fetish brass explorations of John Zorn , especially for its frenzy of a finale, "Black Tar Caviar" pairs confusion and aggression in a compelling way, pitting the avantgarde against the underground and reveling in the forms' rejection of each other.  Those opening Albert Ayler -styled sax notes almost seem like a red herri...

Along with METZ , Pissed Jeans , and KEN mode , I recommend Marriage + Cancer for your Subterranean/Reptile/Dischord/Touch & Homestead rock needs. And, no, that's not a diss. "Honour, On Our Knees," a new single from the band's upcoming self-titled LP, is certainly evocative of an era.  For those of us who enjoyed our adolescence glued to a Walkman, the volume too high as the spool wound through a primal, undulating mire composed of guitar-aggravated stress and angst, Marriage + Cancer will revisit and tug relentlessly at those sensibilities.  And, you'll like it, goddammit.  Guitarist Robert Comitz  apparently has some legacy with K Records as a member of the band Nucular Aminals . This track premiered at New Noise .  Marriage + Cancer will be out February 9th via Self Sabotage Records .  All info was delivered courtesy of the excellent people at Us/Them Group.   Marriage + Cancer premiere new track from forthcomi...