The Quill 9/10
Tiger Blood Record Label: Metalville Records
Released: 3 June 2013
Highlight of the album: Greed Machine Website: http://www.thequill.se Reviewer: Jon Seymour
This is album number 7 from these Swedish ‘stoners’ and it’s very much business as usual. The album has a grungy, greasy, grimy kind of sound, and it packs a mighty punch. The songs themselves are quite catchy, with sing-a-long choruses, and infectious grooves. Oh yes, this is good stuff.
rock bands, that’s for certain. The album is full of energy, and it sets out with a sense of purpose. It grabs you by the scruff of the neck, shakes you violently, then ties you to a horse and drags you through the dirt.
This is a heavy slab of rock that you certainly Vocally, there’s a certain drawl to them, and they’re wouldn’t want to drop on your foot, its loud, its brash pretty powerful too. There’s a lot to like on this and most of all, really good. It will suck you in right album that’s for sure. Stoner rock hasn’t really stood from the start, and it’ll hold you hostage right until the test of time, and while it was popular some ten the end, where it might let you go, if you’re lucky. I years ago, these days it’s less so. The fact that don’t like comparing artists to others, but I found these guys have endured for this long is testament myself being reminded of Soundgarden while to the quality of music that they produce. It’s not listening to this album, but I don’t think it’s a direct something you can pigeonhole into any particular comparison, just more of a similar feel. It’s well genre, so Stoner Rock is used in the loosest sense worth checking it out though, that’s for sure. of the word. You can hear the blues influences in the music too, although its way heavier than many other bluesy
Texas 9/10
The Conversation Record Label: [PAIS] Recordings
Released: 20 May 2013
Highlight of the album: Detroit City Website: http://www.texas.uk.com/ Reviewer: Lee Walker
I have always had a bit of a soft spot for Texas since first coming across them many years ago thanks to the success of the ‘I Don’t Want A Lover’ single which received massive airplay and was regularly featured on compilation albums well into the 90s, so when I had the opportunity to review their latest release curiosity got the better of me. A lot of the previous Texas album releases always seemed to suffer from inconsistency, which unfortunately led to them not quite receiving the recognition that they deserved or reaching the heights that they should have done, but the release of ‘The Conversation’ album marks a return to form for the band and leads them from their self-imposed exile with what is easily there best release since
‘White On Blonde’ and possibly there strongest album to date. Containing all of the bands trade mark bluesy sounds that suit Sharleen Spiteri’s vocals oh so well, ‘The Conservation’ feels like the album that should have followed ‘White on Blonde’ and could easily spawn multiple singles such is the quality of the songs included on the album, and with tracks of the calibre of ‘Detroit City’ it is safe to say that you should expect a resurgence of interest in the band and for ‘The Conservation’ to be labelled as one of the top ‘come back’ albums of the year.
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