Tim Rutili & Craig Ross – 10 Seconds To Collapse

TIM RUTILI is the founder and principal songwriter for Califone & Red Red Meat. CRAIG ROSS is a producer, songwriter and collaborator who has worked with Shearwater, Lisa Germano, Spoon, Patty Griffin, Robert Plant, Daniel Johnston. On their previous effort, 2016’s Guitars Tuned to Air Conditioners, songwriters Tim Rutili and Craig Ross built a long-form drone, a study in electricity and tension. Their followup LP, 10 Seconds to Collapse takes a different tact: its seven songs employ deconstructed pop melodies, blown-out folk rock, and woozy psychedelia. A true collaboration – Ross and Rutili split songwriting, lyrical, and instrumentation duties – it rings with a melodic complexity befitting its skewed, sidewise narrative, black comedy rumination about the end of the world, prisons, desert cities, and errant gods. “10 seconds to collapse is brilliant – Tim Rutili and Craig Ross make music of unhinged genius and bruised beauty” – Mark Lanegan