“At the rate Brian McMahan is going, we can expect him to release an album of complete silence somewhere around 2007. You can trace his progression down the decibel scale from the angry punk scruff of Squirrel Bait through the gothic angst of Slint to the sublime but uneven work of the For Carnation. *Fight Songs* and *Marshmallows* trod too close to conventional post-rock territory to make much of”
