Farewell Silkworm, hello Bottomless Pit

Silkworm (1987-2005) is one of my favorite all time bands.  It's hard to pick their best album, but for the purposes of this post, let's choose the first one that I  heard, which is the stunning Firewater (1996).

Their music is kind of hard to describe.  Generally, it's Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen swapping vocals over Michael Dalhquist's frenetic drumming.  Both songwriters are incredible lyricists, with impeccable sense of story, pacing, and point of view.  I've learned as much about writing fict