Connecticut�s Cable continue to mature and perfect their particular brand of wiry sludge rock with Pigs Never Fly, their newest (2004) full length. These guys have been slugging it out for over ten years, and have consistently managed to dial in catchy, brutal riffage with previous albums on Hydrahead and This Dark Reign...but this new full length album brings in so much melody and spacey, wah-drenched workouts and monstrous feedback and totally unexpected, awesome elements, it makes this a hugely more epic sounding and soul-crushing affair than previous releases, which were solidly entrenched in post-Am Rep violence. There are still the gigantic swampy grooves and nihilistic vocals/lyrics, though, so fans of the previous albums will be served well, but this is definitely a killer step for the band-the lengthy squalls of haunting feedback, the jittery, BORIS- esque fried-cable drones that close out the epic "I Love It When You Crawl", the AWESOME Lynyrd Skynyrd-meets-Pelican chug of "It�s My Right..." (the ending of this song is incredible, with gorgeous, soraing female vocals and a lone acoustic guitar emerging from the riffage to close out the song) , loads of Eyehategod-on-crack swamp blasts broken up with super-powerful, anthemic, catchy choruses that you�d expect from an Isis or Pelican album..soooo good! It�s like modern space-rock/post-rock / melodic slow-core atmospherics mixed with Southern-fried Am Rep sludge rock/metal. It�s definitely my favorite release so far from Cable, and I can�t wait to see what they come up with after this. Highly recommended.