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| 4.5 superb | Alabaster Jones | October 4th 16 |
You know how The White Stripes did the whole minimal garage rock/punk/blues thing and popularized it immensely despite only having one album anywhere above decent to their name? Dead Moon did the same thing, only a decade-plus earlier, twice as good, and comparatively unknown. With a bass. Raw production, sloppy playing, catchy hooks, infectious riffs, lovably average vocal ability that makes up for it in passion, and a delicious bass presence makes In The Graveyard quite the debut. The original material here is all excellent, but the covers are awesome as well, making the songs their own. And when those songs are "Can't Help Falling In Love" and "Hey Joe", that takes some real talent. The album happens to be one of the best infusions of rock and roll, punk, and blues because it takes the parts of those genres that go well with each other and combines them seamlessly, putting it through a garage filter that is authentic as it is a joy to hear, and churning out tune after tune as if it were child's play. This was only the first album of many of theirs to perfectly showcase this formula.
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| 3.0 good | Bedex | April 22nd 21 |
Checked this because of Liz Harris, and while it's cool I can't say i am fully sold because some aspectsjust dont work for me. First of all the structure is quite erratic, with songs going from punkish angst to soft spoken ballads in ways that sometimes work but also confuse you a bit. Secondly it has covers, which are acceptably well done but I just dont like covers yknow - gotta say 6 is super cool instrumentally and nicely angry though. The main flaw are the vocals though, which are at best ok, but very often whiney, and sometimes outright bad - especially the female vox. In kind of works on some calmer, more brooding songs like 10, but on cool punk tracks like 1 or 2 it really does not work imo and ends up being more funny than it is good. The prod is charmingly lo-fi, and some songs that I havnet yet mentioned are quite cool instrumentally like 4-5 or 7, but overall this isn't really a keeper for me. A shame because instrumentally their sound, versatility and aesthetic is really cool, but the overall product doesn't work for me. 3.1
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| 3.5 great | doofy | January 11th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | KuyJuk | January 12th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Runeii | April 23rd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Flomink | December 31st 17 |
| 4.5 superb | lucky | November 21st 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vildh | May 15th 17 |
| 3.5 great | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | April 19th 17 |
| 3.5 great | adr | November 21st 15 |
| 3.5 great | KILL | June 26th 14 |
| 3.5 great | manosg EMERITUS | December 15th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | arcane | November 1st 13 |
| 5.0 classic | Hep Kat | October 27th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | October 1st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | tom79 | September 12th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | ffs | May 16th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | porch | December 15th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Draven65 | September 11th 11 |
| 3.5 great | ASberg | February 17th 09 |
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