I Googled how long it takes for milk to go sour, and unless Becca Ryskalczyk can chug a gallon in 2 hours and 45 minutes, I shouldn’t bring it as a gift.\u00a0Granted, almost accidentally killing a musician would be such<\/em> a throwback to when I started Morning After<\/em><\/a>, and I do love things coming full circle. But the milk is supposed to be a gesture of good will, to replace the (benignly expired) bottle drained on New Years Eve for makeshift White Russians.<\/p>\n

Becca is the leading lady of Bethlehem Steel. Her gift, heard best on Party Naked Forever<\/em>,\u00a0is in utilizing a light and sweet voice for a kaleidoscope of emotions. “Deep Back” breaks my heart,\u00a0“Untitled Entitlement” pretty much captured the current national mood of seething anger and disgust (and the line\u00a0“sometimes I can’t tell if I’m real anymore” gutted me on a personal level). And yet there’s no fear in raging, either; Bethlehem Steel’s landscape of sound is both fuzzy and ferocious, delicate and dangerous, as all good things should be.<\/p>\n