Like a blade of grass sprouting through the sidewalk, Reagan-era ATX post-punk on Red River signals life after pandemic death. Flexing new full-length Over and Over and Over Again, ST 37 discharges the opening title-track-come-CBGB-firestarter, floats 14-minute meteor-impact cloud “Observing Dust,” and mic drops intergalactic glaze on “Flea Udder.” Of direct support the Gary, wrote the Chronicle in March of EP Fallow: “Dormant since 2014, the Austin hydroelectric trio generates a hard, flat, Eighties post-punk sound, a tangle and tumble of singer/bassist Dave Norwood, axeman Trey Pool, and new Anthony Castaneda.” Plastique and Pfisters pile on.
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