Crumb - Ice Melt ACD and John Barbata

and John Barbata

forces from outside the city are creeping into its alleyways

As you would expect

they also wrote unavoidably hook-laden songs

and Mac about every track on the album (the ones they remember recording

Crumb - Ice Melt ACD and John BarbataICE MELT, Crumb's second LP, begins with a chaotic scene and ends with a lullaby. "Lyrically," says frontwoman Lila Ramani, "my goal was to return back down to earth from a strange, floating place, and write about real substances and beings that live on this planet." The sounds, too, feel more grounded and of this earth, evoking moods of both isolation and deep connection. Recorded to 2 inch tape by analog masters Jonathan Rado and Michael Harris, ICE