Board to Death: SQÜRL’s Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan

“I’m no shredder, and I wouldn’t want to be,“ says Jim Jarmusch. In SQÜRL’s music, the twisted scraping of industrial wreckage (to my ears the byproduct Jarmusch’s northeast Ohio upbringing) gives way to an uneasy drone seemingly stuck in time like crestfallen Lake Erie tides fighting a losing battle against subzero temperatures before resolving at last into saturated but sparkling reverberated arpeggios. It’s what The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly might have sounded like if Ennio Morricone booked studio ti