In 1997, two members of Chicago post-rock innovators Tortoise — Ken “Bundy K.” Brown, also of Gast del Sol, and Doug McCombs, also of Eleventh Dream Day — teamed up with Come’s Chris Brokaw and Rex’s Curtis Harvey to form Pullman, a vehicle for the acoustic-style music that didn’t make sense in those guys’ other bands. Drummer Tim Barnes, who’d worked with people like the Silver Jews and Jim O’Rourke, joined up later. Pullman released their debut album Turnstiles & Junkpiles in 1998, and they followed it with Viewfinder in 2001. Since then, Pullman have been largely inactive, but now they’re getting ready to return with their first LP in a quarter-century.
