The best music is always truly indefinable. Words can't truly describe Tom Waits' caterwaul the same way they can't explain what it feels like to experience the deafening volume of a J. Mascis guitar solo. Portland, Oregon's prolific 31Knots have described their sound as "post-apocalyptic Vaudevillian punk," and while that's an apt description, it doesn't begin to express the level of demented-pop brilliance on the band's latest full-length, The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere.
From the stuttering sequenced intro of the opener "Beauty" to the airy ambient ending of the closer "Walk With Caution," The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere is the complete realization of the sound 31Knots have been working toward for the last nine years.