‘[Craw’s debut] eclipsed everything else that I was listening to. Within weeks, it made all the metal I was listening to seem silly.’ Left to right, craw: Chris Apanius, David McClelland, Neil ...

Cleveland post-rock/post-hardcore band Craw put out three albums in the ’90s (all recorded with Steve Albini) and then their final album, 2002’s Bodies for Strontium, which came out on Hydra Head.

Wrapping your head around something is a strange little idiom. While the search for understanding initially manifests itself as your mind engrossing a notion, when your obsession with that idea grows, ...