Cows: Distortion, for Starters
Coming out of a Minneapolis scene also sporting the likes of Hüsker Dü, supreme noiseniks themselves, Cows often find themselves compared to those better known Twin Cities’ musicians. It’s not a specious side-by-side. Each group favored ridiculously distorted guitar sounds, tempos shifting from quick-step punk to plodding rock stuffs. And while each group, increasingly over time, sought to assimilate a bit of pop structure to its work, Cows never approached the sort of general accessibility that Hüskers did.
