If a number of the tracks on Hard Coming Love’s eponymous debut sound vaguely like Oasis, then it just goes to show how much difference the execution of a song counts for. ‘Looking For Some Love’ is a case in point: it has at its heart a riff that could have been penned by the brothers Gallagher, but instead of being a lumpen guitar dirge, it soars and surges and refreshes the parts other rock acts can’t reach.
Taking their name from a song which appears on the1968 album by garage experimentalists The United States of America, it’s abundantly clear that these guys have a taste for the vintage, although drawing on less obvious sources than the usual diet of Beatles / Stones / Who / Zeppelin. One need look no further than the sprawling opener, ‘Lovelight’ and ‘We Already said So Long’, on which hard-edged psychedelic rock is the order of the day to get a handle on where they’re coming from. The songs are delivered with an air of assurance that’s hard to argue with as they build a wash of guitars that carry the listener away.
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Closer ‘Psycho’ melds the swirling reverb-soaked rhythmic drone of The Black Angels with The Doors at their most hypnotic and tops it off with a rough-hewn garage feel that soaks the sounds in a rich, swampy feel as it slowly yet inexorably builds to a crescendo of howling treble.
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