Raucous hard-rockin’ psych-hued garage blues riffage explodes from the speakers bursts from the speakers the second the play button is hit. Everything’s cranked up to eleven, and the straining, full-tilt vocals battle to be heard amidst the big, big guitars. It’s hardly a problem though, as it’s not really one of those albums you’d listen to for the lyrics, and besides, there are some lengthy instrumental breaks. Yes, ‘The Great Escape’ is all about the guitars. And the swaggering, strolling bass that makes some nifty runs. And the heavy-duty drumming.
There’s some let-up at the mid-point with ‘Densaflorativa’, a semi-experimental sounding spaced-out jam with tribal drum work and an extended meandering guitar solo that goes to town on the fancy fretwork. As the dust begins to settle, things get back into the gritty groove that runs through the first half of the album, with ‘I Don’t Need Nobody’ coming on like a scuzzed-out garage tribute to Led Zep. Over the course of ‘Misleading Me’, ‘Summer of 1942’ and ‘Insideout’, Radio Moscow really ratchet up the racket with some overloading rock workouts, before pulling back on the gas on the super-repetitive ‘Deep Down Below’.
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It’s only a brief pause to recharge, though, and they bring it all home on the stomping ‘Open pur Eyes’, a rousing chunk of overloading garage riffery that powers the album to its suitably climactic conclusion.
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