Last year, Bill Orcutt of 90s gnarly Miami noise group Harry Pussy blasted the bejesus out of blues with a beat-up guitar and blew us all away with How The Thing Sings to get a spot on our favorites of 2011. Now, Orcutt’s buddy Mark Feehan, who frequently played spastic guitar for Harry Pussy, is releasing his first solo record, MF, with old Harry Pussy promoters Siltbreeze Records. Feehan’s independent work is somewhat similar to Orcutt’s acoustic binges of raw Americana, but it echoes louder his punk roots: on some tracks, it is through pure loudness, and the rest hold subtle rock-like structures from which Feehan’s modal musings materialize.

But it’s not the similarity to former bandmates that’s interesting here. Apparently, Feehan has spent a lot of time in the last few years submerged in his exact replica of Confederate submarine the H.L. Hunley — what better place to conceive new twisted takes on classic American guitar playing!