FILE SHARING / Randy Harward

BIGELF’S “MONEY, IT’S PURE EVIL”

Bigelf has been rocking Europe for a decade and they just barely started getting a foothold in the States with last year's Hex (on Linda Perry's Custard label)--despite being something of a local legend in L.A. One might speculate that the quartet's seamless tapestry of Floydian space rock, Beatles melodies and stonernaut muscle was too esoteric---or, say, good---to do anything more than confuse label execs and the Nickelback Appreciation Society (Wassup, Lefsetz? That band blows chimps from any serious perspective and you know it) but that'd just invoke an complaint that can't fade into obsolescence fast enough. Fact is, there's just so much good stuff out there trying to punch a hole in the fabric of our speakers that sometimes shit gets lost. Thank Pazuzu or Quetzalcoatl or whatever winged demon you hold in high esteem that Bigelf is following up Hex so soon with Cheat the Gallows. This album--their fourth, btw--shows they aim to claim their rightful place in America's rock consciousness. Then visit www.myspace.com/bigelf to check out the single, "Money, It's Pure Evil," then descend into a swirling vortex of insanity on "Painkillers" and "Madhatter."