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The Hollywood Squaretet- "NICE TETS" Roulade CD 2009

If you live in my neighborhood this CD will seem familiar to you: If you've ever fallen asleep with the free jazz college radio station on in one room, and a crazy neighbor ranting in another, this will make you feel the warm cozy embrace of home. Anyone who dosen't realize this is awesome is fucking stupid.  
                           -Roctober #47

SIGNAL TO NOISE
Hollywood Squaretet-  Tet-Offensive
Gulcher 603 CD 2006

At first glance, its tempting to dismiss Hollywood Squaretet out of hand as three chord poli-sci punk for improve jazzbos, the late night artsy fusion equivelant of all those interchangeable, juvenilely- named bands who hove up add inches in maximum rock n roll but will never actually make a second CD or 7 inch before leaving home for college. Even after one has spent quality time with tet offensive, that impression lingers, and why not? After all, the drummer/singer calls himself Larry Copcar and fires off caustic rejoinders Through the tangled, gnarled noodling he makes alongside saxophonist Kenny Kawamura, alto saxophonist/upright bass player Todd Homer, and three guesting guitarists. Yet there is something magnetic at work beneath their free form strain and bleat, their off-the-cuff clamor, their loose, unhinged flow, that makes this records worth returning too. Theres also the sense that these guys know exactly what theyre doing here: displaying virtuosity within clouds of chaos. And isnt that something we all strive to accomplish?

 - Raymond Cummings 

The VILLAGE VOICE