The album continues along with songs of intensity with bouncing sing along parts, beautiful soft math-rock/twiddling breakdowns, solid rhythm sections and more great lines – like “So please bear with me while I try to balance my professional posturing with my punk rock posturing.” On “DEAR SIR” the band cranks out some gritty metal guitar riffs and pounding drums, on “Town Hall Gathering” Rubino ratchets up her voice to a quiet falsetto and Cunnigham counters it wonderfully with some gruff screaming and the bass dances quietly in time behind it all. At various times teach instrument gets it’s chance to shine a bit though, kind of jazz like in a solo, and there is an instrumental song – “The World Series” – to show that the band can play well enough to do an instrumental only track, something Fugazi used to do on each record.
East/West is not equal to a Fugazi recording, but it is up there, in intensity, smarminess, intelligence, creativity and competentness. Bridge and Tunnel just finished a tour of the U.S. and will tour Europe in April.
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