When To Live & Shave in L.A. released The Wigmaker in 2001 was the world ready? It was eight years in the making and completely changed how a listener perceives music. It was said in the press that in 20 years TL&SILA and The Wigmaker would be looked at the way people now look at Sun Ra. Nice words, but won't that put a wrench on a bands next effort?

Noon and Eternity, TL&SILA's follow up to The Wigmaker will put any doubts to rest, plus all 2's suck anyway, so who wanted to make The Wigmaker 2? Hating the word noise and scoffing at the notion of being experimental, this is so different from anything they've done before. For this album Shave return with it's core unit, with the show being run by Tom Smith and fellow captains Rat Bastard (bass) and Ben Wolcott (oscillator), but added five additional members: Don Fleming (guitar), Chris Grier (guitar), Thurston Moore (guitar), Mark Morgan (guitar) and Andrew W.K. (drums).

Um, wow.

Recorded well over a year ago at Sonic Youth's Echo Canyon studios, and mixed and mastered over the last year, TL&SILA give you four songs which equate to a 67-minute journey. Noon and Eternity will once again have people questioning what have I been listening to all this time! If you had to, one could say that The Wigmaker defined a futuristic approach to punk and Noon and Eternity is a futuristic vision of psych.

Each song is made up of various interludes and connecting chapters of thought. This is not verse chorus verse music, though probably their most accessible work to date. Have you been hooked yet?