THE CONVERSIONS - Prisoners' Inventions LP Avantgarde Toeplitz & Franck Vigroux

Toeplitz & Franck Vigroux

For fans of Melt Banana

Here are Mike's musings on the experience

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

the goat that cursed the Cubs

THE CONVERSIONS - Prisoners' Inventions LP Avantgarde Toeplitz & Franck VigrouxWith 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