When Blue, the last full-length from The Jesus Lizard, released in 1998 to little fanfare, it seemed an appropriately ugly final note for a band so deliberately unpleasant. The end of a lukewarm major label run that even today inspires little retrospection among fans, its weird, ghoulish sound felt, if nothing else, like an appropriate “fuck you” to end on. But 2024 comes, a year that’s been notable for canonized noise rock with both a new release from contemporaries Shellac as well as the death of genre-figurehead Steve Albini. It felt like the end of a very specific era in … Continue reading Review: The Jesus Lizard – Rack