“When, as is sure to happen, some enterprising media company finally live-streams a trepanation over the web for the first time, Pearson Sound's “XLB” would make an excellent soundtrack. Its corkscrewing arpeggios feel not unlike a fine-tipped drill bit whirring through bone; the beatless breakdown, full of jellied blips, suggests all that grey matter quivering expectantly. And then once the beat k”
