MadTracks: 'How Do You Talk to a Lady?' by Cribshitter
22.05.12
Since 2007, Cribshitter has forced Madison show-goers to ask themselves some difficult questions. Namely, does this really require a tuba and a lion mask, and is that local guitar hero John Masino jumping onstage to play squealing leads on a song called "I Got Hot Sauce In My Pussy"? (Answers: of course and yes.)
Cribshitter continues drawing on a stockpile of shiny pop and country sounds with Methlehem , the whopping 29-song, 79-minute follow-up to 2008's Cry A Little Rainbow. (The band will celebrate the album with a show at Dragonfly Lounge on Friday, January 27.) Despite spending more and more time contributing to the maturing band Icarus Himself, guitarist-singer Karl Christenson joins his Cribshitter mates in writing another ream of lyrics about genitals (the album's main single is the electro-poppy "Boom Goes The Vaginamite") and a host of unsavory lifestyle choices ("Riverboat Casino," "Puppy Mills"), amassing a vocabulary of X-rated baby-talk in the process.
Source: Isthmus Daily Page