“We didn’t want to be a Cherubs cover band playing Heroin Man over and over,” group bassist/howler Owen McMahon told the Chronicle in 2016. Austin-born a quarter-century earlier as a key component of the pioneering local post-punk scene (Scratch Acid, Butthole Surfers, Ed Hall) and disbanded the year Kurt Cobain killed himself, the screeching noiseniks reunited a decade ago to produce gleefully galvanizing bashers 2 YNFYNYTY (2015) and Immaculada High (2019). Low ceilings at Lost Well issue a challenge: Can the trio and its O.G. faithful breach said barrier atop the grime-pop bounce of McMahon, guitarist Kevin Whitley, and drummer Brent Prager?
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— Raoul Hernandez
