Bastro
Grubbs and McEntire before they went off and changed everything with Gastr del Sol and Tortoise respectively. Angular noise rock but you can already hear the gears turning, like they know they're headed somewhere weirder and bigger. Albini recorded it because of course he did. Three records and then they evolved into completely different animals.
People
Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Gastr del Sol. Started in hardcore, ended up doing experimental composition with Jim O'Rourke, and now he's a professor. That's the most Louisville career arc imaginable. Every phase rules.
Started behind the drums in Bastro, ended up as one of post-rock's key architects in Tortoise. Producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist, runs Soma Studios in Chicago. The guy who figured out how to make a rock band sound like an entire orchestra of weird.
Bastro's bassist, holding down the low end while Grubbs and McEntire built their noisy, brainy post-hardcore. Part of the Louisville-to-Chicago pipeline that fed so much great music into the 90s underground.
