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The Jesus Lizard review – US rockers relive past glories, with added phlegm
Force of nature David Yow and band tour their superb first album in 26 years with a growling, spit-flecked fusion of pummelling songs and acerbic wit
Clad in a black shirt and jeans, Yow prowls the stage, spitting, hollering inchoate insights into the microphone, clamping the cord between his teeth, darkly exhorting the crowd not to stop clapping. Yow, now 64, remains one of US underground music’s most storied performers, a grunge-era force of nature – and alcohol – who, in his band’s deranged 90s heyday, spent a fair amount of their gigs stripped to the waist or the ankles, annihilating the fourth wall. LA-based Yow is asometime actor, visual artist and photograph retoucher; the distinguished and professorial-looking Denison leaned towards jazz in the Denison/Kimball Trio and now plays in Tomahawk with Faith No More’s Mike Patton, who also runs the independent label Ipecac Recordings.
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