The Narcotic Story

There is change. Crystalline change. And between spaces and for spaces of the full measure of IT ALL what was big becomes small and what’s small becomes animal grand until it’s you, and handfuls of you, running into the always firing sun: a love that spells its name along the frame of everything that’s broken. For good. For ever. And so it goes that OXBOW’s The Narcotic Story, co-produced by Grammy-winning producer-mixer Joe Chiccarelli (Frank Zappa, American Music Club, The Shins, The Raconteurs) is the sixth chambered installment of a suicide that plays itself out on the hustings of a substanced and principled addiction to failure while the band plays on.

Eugene Robinson returns with a record that's sparser than his band's more metallic styles, and, paradoxically, much heavier.