Amid the improvisers, drone-masters and acid-folk renegades of the US underground, the dozen or so members of Sunburned Hand Of The Man stand out like a beatnik militia. A plethora of unattainable releases (usually on CD-R) and Dionysian live shows have marked out Sunburned's path thus far, though Rare Wood may be their first LP that's relatively easy to locate. It's worth the effort, too. This is prickly, occasionally malign music that often resembles a face-off between Beefheart and Amon Düül. Ostensibly a bunch of fractious jams, inevitably there are passages more ponderous than transcendent. Go with it, though, for the incantatory sludge-funk of "Camel Backwards" and, especially, "Glass Boot", which recall Sunburned's finest hour, the fine Jaybird set from 2002.
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