Document provides a tight and rhythmic take on post-rock, a style more often deemed loose and unbridled. Drums, bass, voice and two guitars all provide an aggressive percussive “hardcore” push, which makes way for post-rock yelps and hoarse whimpers. Coursing through the spindly veins of recent rock history, Document’s music even somehow manages to come out melodic. And that’s pretty remarkable.
This article appears in Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2001.