A slice of tremolo-heavy classic rock filtered through the lens of the gunslinging American West, Remo Drive’s third LP, “A Portrait Of An Ugly Man,” is in many ways a return to form for the Minnesota-based indie-rock duo. The album, with its acrobatic guitar work, deeply self-referential lyrics and off-the-walls energy, calls back to the dextrous, eccentric sound that helped the band–brothers Erik (vocals, guitar) and Stephen (bass) Paulson–explode into the underground with their debut album, “2017’s Greatest Hits.” And, like the band’s earliest material, it took shape in an equally unassuming place: their parents’ basement.
