Think more four/four Pavement, less angsty Archers of Loaf, less spazzy, more guitary Devo, a tad bit o' Les Savy Fav, and some sort of weird crazy sexy rock action, all wrapped into one.
Craig Finn, Lifter Puller's inscrutable singer, rants about all kinds of seemingly nonsensical things, but something about his half-swallowed Eric Bachmann-meets-Mark E. Smith-meets-Prisonshake vocals make it all go down smooth. Smooth like cigarettes and straight vodka. This is ass-shakin', girlfriend-stealin', fancy moves-makin' rock music, straight from the great rock city of Minneapolis. You can tell this band knows how to work it and have a good time, too.
Lifter Puller has it together: after releasing records on No Alternative and Skene!, and putting one out themselves, they have found a home with The Self-Starter Foundation and
Frenchkiss Records. Minneapolis's The City Pages quoted Joe Strummer as saying "It's Lifter Puller's world...we just live in it" in a story about The Clash. Of course, that same evening he was overheard saying to Finn "You
guys are going to be bigger than Blur, or Pavement... [pause] ... or Blur." So take that into mind. But take a listen.
