Rock is the new black…
Two rocking guitars by Todd Clouser and Eyal Maoz form a quartet with Shanir Ezra Bumenkran/b and Jorge Servin/dr for ten tunes that have Clouser singing like a mix of Lou Reed talking, rap and poetic dissertations that sound like something from a bohemian lounge, with head banging music in the back and foreground. There are fuzzy guitar sounds abounding and electronic voices as on “Believe” and the avalanche of drums on the thundering “Burn The Whole Thing Down”. Spacey drums and guitars make up “Hell Is An Empty Place” and there are more noodles than a Chinese soup kitchen on “”Man and Machine” and the space case of “I’m The One” while the rock sounds are a mix of Def Leppard and Scorpions, while they do show that they can boogie on “Forecast In Rome”. Wasn’t this music end after they stopped the draft in ’73?
In a slightly different milieu, Reverend Peyton sings a gruff sermon while playing guitar and harmonica with Washboard Breezy Peyton playing, guess what?, and other percussion and vocals along with Sad Max Senteney on drums and vocals. There’s lot of slide guitar as on the bluesy “Dirty Hustlin’” and “No Tellin’ When” as well as some Chuck Berry riffs during “I’ll Picky You Up” and the ZZ Top-ish “Rattle Gun”.” Senteney hits hard on Crime To Be Poor” and the blues are brewing on “Nothing’s Easy But You and Me”. The trailer park is jumpin’.