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Other people have written about this second album from The Heartless Bastards, but let me just chime in: it's a monster. Significantly better than the already excellent Stairs and Elevators...much prettier production, more complicated arrangements, some piano...and still one of the great rock and roll voices of our time from Erika Wennerstrom. If you haven't heard her sing, it's hard to believe such a big sound comes out of such a tiny woman. Janis, Grace Slick, Plant.... MORE
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One of my favorite songs of 2005 was the Heartless Bastards' "My Maker," which was on their debut, Stairs and Elevators. That song was bluesy but it rocked. Lead singer Erika Wennerstrom's voice didn't sound like other blues singers. It's "soulful, tough and flecked with blues," as critic Jennifer Kelly wrote, and it has a quality that at times reminds me vaguely of Patti Smith. "My Maker" was intense, and I must have played it 50 times. The Heartless Bastards: intense ... MORE
