Plenty of romantic partners meet at work. Daniel Twombly and J. Sehorn met on the job and ended up making a different kind of music--the music kind of music. A mixture of slice-and-dice electronics combined with bass, beats and disconnected vocals, the easy bit of description is to say that these songs defy that.

CUSPS Out for Blood (self-released)

But that's cheap. CUSPS has plenty of reference points, from 70s experimentalism to more modern explorations. The noises here can seem random at times, but these songs are anything but abstract. Yes, the forms are unusual, but each song heads in a direction of its own making.

By and large, these are short songs, and many sound unfinished. Then comes a song like "Brainiac," which does not seem to be a tribute to the awesome T&G band, except that there are an awful lot of sonic references. Like everything else on this set, speculation is futile. Not to mention distracting.

These pieces exist in their own world, one that parallels ours but intersects only momentarily. I'm here for the experience, and my mind wandered so far afield I considered sending a search party. CUSPS is not here to pander. It simply is, and you can listen or not. I suggest the former. With frequency.

Jon Worley