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Review: 'DATURA 4'
'Hairy Mountain'   

-  Label: 'Alive Natural Sound'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '28th October 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'SKU17974'

Our Rating:
Datura 4 are a band from Western Australia that feature ex members of the New Christs and The Stems and they are apparently in search of the endless riff. Of course they are.

It opens with the Fools Gold Rush, which sounds exactly like is title suggests. Yes it's a bit of a Stone Roses rip off, or at least it's ripping off the same sort of psychedelic influences and adding a tasty guitar solo in the middle for the Hairy blokes to skin up to.

Trolls opens like it is going to be a never-ending monster psych groove in the style of, say, Spacemen 3 but soon veers off into slightly more verdant territory as the guitars seem to be rolling round the speakers like the guitarist is on the floor playing while going round in circles. The Trolls may be creeping but the trusty guitar will ward off any evil they might do to you. Oh yeah.

Uphill Climb builds like you are going from the foothills and getting to the serious climbing. As the intensity and the riffs build they make sure we stay in line and get up that mountain before they reach the plateau and just chill out until those guitars expire or they stop panting for breath.

Mary Carroll Park is more like they have a couple of big old hogs and are screaming through the outback on them a real biker rock anthem. Hairy Mountain is a slow deliberate biker stoner rock tale of the road and the smoking of the communal pipe. It reminds me a bit of Cactus I think. Then of course after sucking the pipe a bit too much someone gets wrecked on the highway and the guitars try to let us know how his mangled bike and body feel.

Greedy World is a laid-back blues-rock shuffle that has the same sort of feel the North Mississippi Allstars go for and sounds perfect for getting a crowd singing along, call and response style. Confide In Me has a dirty wink in its eye as you know he wants all your secrets so he can spill the beans to his mates over a spliff or two with some good old boogie rock.

Too Much (Or Not Enough) sounds like it should a blues-y rock monster of a song about getting to that stage of being out of it when you may have had too much (or you may just need a booster). They give you said booster in the form of a good shot of a guitar solo to the cortex of your brain before it mellows and you're sure it really has hit you and knocked you sideways.

Something To Hide is all about copping drugs and having a good time as the Blues infect your mind almost as much as the weed that's infecting their minds. Broken Path is the comedown tale asking what happened to someone he no longer sees around for the usual reasons, so to speak, as they bring us back to earth once more.


Order it on vinyl here:

Bomp store online


and find out more here:

Datura 4 online
  author: simonovitch

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DATURA 4 - Hairy Mountain