This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
As a post-punk power trio from Minneapolis, Arcwelder must be sick of being compared (however fairly and favourably) to Hüsker Dü.
So, let me be the first to remark that Everest, their sure-footed sixth album, also reminds me of another legendary post-punk trio — The Meat Puppets. Like that trio’s Kirkwood brothers, Bill and Rob Graber’s guitar and bass weave intricate, rough-hewn blankets of sound that wrap around Bill’s dry, dusty baritone and flowing vocal style. At any second, you expect them to break into Animal. Of course, then propulsive drummer Scott Macdonald opens his mouth and lets out that yelping falsetto, and it’s howdy Dü all over again. Sorry boys, it’s true. But you must be used to that by now.
