This being good-time, southern rock music there is a touch of the blues on the “Angel on a Broken Wing” which features Luther Dickinson. We get some wonderful female vocal touches in other places like “Take Me Home”. Then you have Zack channeling his best Stevie Wonder on “Without You” if he sang southern rock instead of R&B. This is great laid back southern rock blues that seeps from the speakers and just fills your soul with its goodness. Yeah, it's pretty mellow most of the time, but there is still that drive that permeates all that is good from the south whether its Skynrd or the Allman Brothers. More blues than country for sure, but the grittiness still permeates each song.
If you love your southern blues then this is a disc that you need to seek out soonest. Bloody good stuff all around, not one duff track to be had.
Wolves in the Throne Room: Black Cascade
Into all lives must come a bit of the blackest of metal and this lot quality profusely. Vocals emanate from the bowels of somewhere nasty with lots of dreary heaviness. It's four tracks, and is their first music to be released in 5 years, of rain soaked pervasive blackness. This is not your cheery music that is for sure. It's analogue heaviness on a track like “Ahrimanic Trance” which was in fact recorded on equipment from 1973.
Its hard to believe they come from the same state that produce Nirvana isn’t it? It must be all the rain and heroin in Washington state that produces such dreary music, but this is dreary in a good way and heavy as anything you would hear. Next time you are in need some of something a bit downbeat WitTR might just hit the mark.
Enough reviews for one week. I have give you enough variety to find something you might like. As always have a rocking week and stay safe.
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