Referencing Black Keys, Them Crooked Vultures and The Doors, Electric Woodland make no bones about where they’re coming from or their place in the pantheon of rock. Gritty, earthy guitar tone leads the swaggering blues rock riffery that dominates debut album ‘Potrero’.
‘Bad Shoe’ sounds more Black Keys, while lyrically leaves a fair bit to be desired: ‘I had a stone in my shoe / but it disappeared when I got a glimpse of you’. Later in the same song, singer Peder Kjaernli audaciously comes on like Jim Morrison singing ‘Roadhouse Blues’ as he drawls ‘The hole’s got bigger / I’m walking barefoot on the street’, and ‘Have You Seen My Baby’ takes ‘The Changeling’ as its starting point, roughing it up into a chunky blues rock number. They make a pretty decent fist of it too. Don’t for a second think they’re offering anything remotely innovative, but then, who cares? There are ultimately only two kinds of music, good and bad. And Electric Woodland are pretty good.
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