Right, here's how it is: Critters Buggin is hardcore.

When the freakishly boundary-pushing Seattle quartet (veritably legends in the Pacific Northwest) convened last September in drummer Matt Chamberlain's The Kraft Studio, it'd been five years since Amoeba, their fourth and final album on Loosegroove records (Stone Gossard's Epic imprint). But it wasn't for lack of wanting. They were busy, y'understand, off playing with everybody and their moms.

"It's been madness, I tell you," said saxophonics... more