Nearing 30 years of existence, Chicago’s Eleventh Dream Day has managed to sidestep every trend that might have made it popular. Grunge, post-rock, alt-country: All have come and peaked since the band’s self-titled 1987 debut, and all bear traces of Eleventh Dream Day’s influence. Since then, drummer-vocalist Janet Beveridge Bean formed the twangy Freakwater, and bassist Doug McCombs founded the experimental Tortoise, but Edd’s middle ground between these approaches—hinged upon the sinewy guitar heroics of frontman Rick Rizzo—hasn’t kept the band from slipping into footnote purgatory. The best thing about Edd’s 10th ...
- 3/22/2011
- avclub.com
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