My dream date was Roy Montgomery but he was always too dirty. So I would pretend to clean him up. Make sure he was shorn, dressed proper, and then slowly introduce him to my family. Might start with some of the Kranky stuff because everyone still pretended to try to understand music in the ’90s. Turns out this fantasy is slightly embodied in Lime Works. A slow, droll vision of Montgomery circa The Pin Group. Slowed motioned into Reservoir Dogs coolness, a spoken lyricism a la John Cale on “The Gift” emerges from Mild Infection as it slowly unravels, just like my fantasy. My family is turned off by the aloofness but I see the rebel in Lime Works. It’s not a ’90s grunginess but a ’50s cool — not Motorcycle Boy but easily a smarter Pony Boy. And we hope on the stolen bike of Mild Infection and ride into the carelessness of the country. My family knew this day would come. You can’t clean up a rebel to make him into a hero.
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