ZOND - s/t LP Pop Punk film maker Bob Wass and

film maker Bob Wass and mountaineer Cathy O'Dowd

and at other times are twisted beyond recognition

dark gem and tracks like 'if we escape' are heroic

The Lowest is back

is unexploded ordnance is landmines is cluster bombs

ZOND - s/t LP Pop Punk film maker Bob Wass andZond have obviously improved in leaps and bounds since their endless riff jam band days: there's 10 songs here, some as short as 2 1 2 minutes. They sound like songs, too: a beginning, something approaching a chorus and a verse, and an end. Recorded by Jack Farley and mastered by Casey Rice, the sound is still fairly lo tech in the sense that the drums and bass are a little too low in the mix, though the guitars leap from the speaker to awesome