Music, in the Blood sets off with an explosion: a bright shot across the sky, complete with screaming trumpets and monstrous drums. If Parker Street Cinema’s self-titled EP was their infancy, Music, in the Blood chronicles a band amidst a heroic rise to adulthood. Wielding little more than piano, bass and drums (along with the occasional sample), the kinetic, vocal-less trio craft the kind of dynamic narratives Gershwin would have written if handed a distortion pedal or three. Ultimately, Music, in the Blood articulates, emotes and inspires a host of feelings both intimate and triumphant. This is the fabric of electric anthems.
Press
“San Francisco trio Parker Street Cinema’s post-rock offering Music, in the Blood fastens itself somewhere between the abrasive and the pastoral, never quite veering to either extreme. The production is solid, embedding a variety of punchy, often growling bass tones underneath the piano leads.” - Fake Jazz
PSC’s dramatic musicianship is their strength, with a dirty, chunky, groove-centric/funk-infected bass sound, like a freestyle dancing diplodocus, prone to augmented breaks of fuzz that would move tectonic plates. Juxtaposed with nimble piano/synth and crisply executed beat-keeping which morphs from solid spinal scaffolding to intermittent flicks, ticks, and frills, these guys play with gusto and it shows; you can feel the frenetic energy in the music.” – The Silent Ballet
