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• Mucho Mistrust [Carpark, 2024] A-

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Mucho Mistrust [Carpark, 2024]
Led by v/g/b/k provider Ham D'Amato, yet another Berklee refugee who's gone on to louder things, this catchy-and-a-half Oakland post-riot-grrrl trio-plus hasn't given up on the heartening suspicion that love is worth the trouble even when "you're a beacon of joy or of strife for me." Usually they're noisy, occasionally they're kind of sweet, sometimes they're both, and almost invariably D'Amato's vocals split the difference between the musical and the conversational. Plus there's "Gotta Meet You," where Jeanne Oss's saxophone provides an entertaining overlay of sonic impropriety at just the moment when you're hankering for more noise. A-