I've been listening to this album non-stop this week. Slowride first came to my attention when I discovered that they released a split CD ep with their mostly under-rated Deep Elm label-mates Red Animal War. This was in 2004 (the split came out in 2002), and they had subsequently released two full-lengths by that time. I listened to their debut LP "As I Survive The Suicide Bombing" which was pretty standard indie/punk. The sort of thing I had come to expect from Deep Elm. Anyway, it was pretty unremarkable as I recall and I completely forgot about Slowride (and Red Animal War, who have one stellar album called "The Phantom Crusade"). Fast forward to 2009 and I randomly decide to use Pandora Radio, which, if you are unfamiliar with is pretty neat and you can learn all sorts of fascinating things about your musical idiosyncrasies (for instance, I am evidently a huge fan of "exstensive vamping"). Long story short, I hear a Slowride song that sounds fantastic, but recall not really being into them.
On "C/S" (I have no idea what this stands for) Slowride's sound has changed pretty significantly. They've tuned their guitars down and taken a more alt-rock and (dare I say?) "mainstream" approach. Either way it payed off because this record was memorable right away. There, an entire review and I've said nothing useful.
For fans of: Riddle of Steel, Cake, Foo Fighters
Slowride on Myspace
Get it.
1 comments:
This album is sounding really good. Thanks a lot. The singer/guitarist's new band True Widow is really good, in case you don't know them.
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