A full-throttle overloading guitar roars and bucks its way through opening salvo ‘Lolita’ that isn’t so much a warning shot as a full-scale raid. Polizee’s cracked drawling howl has more than a hint of Kurt Cobain about it, and we’re not talking about any cleaned up grunge-lite, a la Nickelback, but something altogether more raw and completely unmanufactured. The album’s bursting with scuzzed-out guitar-driven explosions, with the jittery jolts of ‘Face Down’ packing an electrified punky punch that harks back to ‘Bleach’ era Nirvana.
The more accessible tracks, such as ‘Mercury Retrograde’ and ‘Rate Race’ sit somewhere between the plaintive grunge of Dinosaur Jr with the slanted slacker pop of Pavement. Big, big guitars, squalling solos and laid-back vocals all sit atop a massive, fuzzed-out bass, while ‘She Calms Me Down’ is a positively dreamy acoustic number. Half Pixies, half Weezer, ‘The Harrowing Wind’ is another alt-rock gem with a melody to cry for.
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