The latest release from this collaborative and wildly eclectic Pacific Northwest “indie cello orchestra” is an interesting bit of a grab-bag - four tunes each with fellow area musicians/singers/songwriters Thao Nguyen and Justin Power, and a bonus pack of four instrumental tunes that careen from legendary tango superstar Carlos Gardel’s “Por Una Cabeza” to, yes - and oh holy shit - a cover of Pantera’s “Mouth For War.” The PCP isn’t about the usual contemporary-artist-with-orchestra styles. They’re dirty, fun and as punk-rock as anything out there, and listeners who go into this expecting something even remotely like Apocalyptica are in for a serious ear-beating; Sessions is fairly unpolished and often discordant, despite the melodic grounding of both the instrumentation and the collaborators’ own styles. Haunting opener “The Lamb” and the jarring Pantera cover ace out the vocal tracks, but each co-conspirator brings something interesting to the table, be it Nguyen’s evocative wails and subtle world-music inspiration or Power’s overall more comfortable, albeit baroque, signature.

- Scott Harrell