Bones Full of Rock
This fifth album by Southern California band Rival Sons is
informed most by the superlative rock vocal of Jay Buchanan and the jagged
guitar riffs of Scott Holiday, consummate old-school rock with occasional and
signature soaring vocal choruses as well as more contemporary effects as on
opener Hollow Bones Pt 1 where the electronic
scratches scorch across the ending, competing with the Buchanan yell. And riffs
are rife as on second Tied Up, a creepy
edge included. Buchanan’s chops are generally chomping on rock’s gristle, for
example sequel Hollow Bones Pt 2, though
it gets heightened emotive injections in sixth Fade Out, and in the genuinely exquisite
closing ballad All That I Want, reminding
a little of Josh T Pearson in the songwriting.
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