Thursday, 14 February 2008Brimstone Howl - tunnel of love on boomchick records Brimstone Howl Tunnel of Love / Boom Chick Records Quantity Pressed: 500 Release Date: 1st Mar 2008 Deep down, this fuzzzy overdrive chord progression and distorted vocals is a direct descendent of the blues. It's born of the 60's with MC5, or early Rolling stones, which in turn, came from the acoustic Blues greats, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson...BB King. It's a staple in the American tradition and contribution to music. At times more than the basic, raw approach to the music itself, it's about storytelling, usually the sad story of cheating, drinking, things that punk can also identify with. It's a fringe expression for the working class, the pop music of it's time which is still universal. Any huge legend of a band became successful thanks to the blues, the Led Zepplins and the Eric Clapton's. Brimstone Howl is a part of this legacy, and with every other single I've heard, all the familiar elements are there, the high hat heavy drumming, rolling bass lines, high tinny echoed strings and all the band chiming in for a chorus. It's like Clockwork Orange with the Outsiders, an era that's twisted just enough to confuse you and make it new again. These greasers are more Black Flag than Stray Cats. The Brimstone Howl are playing the blues fast, and loud, loud enough to buzz the amps and border on punk territory, it's the combination that works with other contemporaries like Tyvek and Cococoma and this apparent resurgence of garage rock. Keeping it simple, straight up guitars, amps, stripped down kit. It's a tried and true situation, a classic that will always work, combine with the blues in Lincoln Nebraska and you have a postmodern JSBX second coming on your hands with their latest single. Jason Dean Labels: boom chick records, brimstone howl, tunnel of love
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