THE CONVERSIONS - Prisoners' Inventions LP Avantgarde (The Styrofoam Drone)

(The Styrofoam Drone)

‘Dark Eyed Messenger’ is the artist’s first set untouched by the instrument with which he is most associated

the goat that cursed the Cubs

Toeplitz & Franck Vigroux

And Mike & Cara Gangloff in a much more stripped back version of their American Popular songbook form accompanied by Matt Peyton

THE CONVERSIONS - Prisoners' Inventions LP Avantgarde (The Styrofoam Drone)With a fury that bespeaks their influences without aping them, the New England quartet bash their way through fourteen tracks on their Level Plane debut, "Prisoners' Inventions." The Conversions' formula melds the mid '90s chaos of bands like Merel and Heroin with the bitterness of Reagan era American hardcore; updating both sounds for a seemingly hopeless post 9 11 world. "Prisoners' Inventions" breathes new life into the often stale hardcore milieu