SACCHARINE JAMS

“WORLDBROKEN,” Saccharine Trust. SST. Leave it to these L.A. punk rebels to record a totally improvisational live album. The foursome has opted for a musical approach based on a series of jagged, death-rock instrumental workouts that have very little to do with hummable melodies and catchy hooks. These slow-to-medium-motion jams add even darker shadings to vocalist Joaquin Brewer’s Camus-style, spoken-word critiques/observations. These semi-Doorsian psychodramas hardly match “The End” as metaphysical poetry, but there are some incisive moments when Joe Baiza’s shards-of-glass guitar work combines with Brewer’s somber delivery to produce some chilling scenes of rock noir . Recorded at McCabe’s last June, “Worldbroken” is a free-form look at a discombobulated world.