Fuzzed Facial
This is a bluesy, hardrock’n’melody album with little that’s
new but everything that’s fine and dandy in this genre. The band is led by
Native American Mato Nanji whose raspy vocal and resonating guitar inform the
sound. The tracks are riff-driven, if you’ll excuse the tautology, and the pace
is blues-leisurely rather than metal-brisk, if you’ll excuse the compound formulae.
That prime pace is underpinned by the occasional harmonising, as on Can’t Cry No More and my favourite Lonely Road, so you know this isn’t one
to rock the party but rather relax you on the long drive home. Eight minute
closer Moon is Rising, and second favourite, has some great
blues guitar playing, so don’t for one moment think this is soporific stuff:
you’ll be flinching your facial chops at every fuzzed inflection.
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