Cherry Right on the Top
More retro rock, this time from 2011 and this power trio’s
second album, where there is a hard rock edge, but I do love the late 60s
distortion and other effects of second The
Day She Came to Play which is a tad more subtle than bat-to-face heaviness.
This is immediately followed by the garage velocity of third Winchester Geese, so be prepared for the
sharp shifts. Dan Lockton on drums pounds this one out with great venom. Fourth
Domino is a more psychedelic groove,
and the guitar of Mat Bethancourt wah-wahs aptly above another fast-paced
foundation: nine minutes of quite raw energy as the guitar work gets an
extended freak-out, echoes of The Who in the song’s closing rhythms. Fifth Evol continues the thundering – though with
another shift in its punctuating balladic breaks from vocalist Mat – and Gregg
Hunt’s bass is a rampant gem on this track. For consummate psychedelia, seventh
Silver Crossed My Mind is exquisite,
and by this stage you know you are listening to an album that has depths of
significance, and the ‘retro’ of its sound is far more creative and genuine
than that tag can imply. When closer Splinters
evokes Jefferson Airplane you know for certain these guys have done their aural
homework, and I give the whole an A*.
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