Plain and simple, I dig the rock and roll. Keep it simple; keep it uncluttered, immediate, noisy, bombastic, and heart-felt.
Lately, I am really liking the trend coming out of the UK of guitar-oriented rock. In 2005, I dug Art Brut’s debut album, Bang Bang Rock and Roll and this year’s release by former Blur guitarist, Graham Coxon’s Love Travels at Illegal Speeds was just as tasty.
I find these releases to be the perfect tonic to the bloated, over-produced, dancetronic bleep-blorp background noise currently topping the US charts.
Continuing in this six-string electricfest trend is Brighton, England's Brakes’ album The Beatific Visions. The first single off this release is "Hold Me In The River."
Man, talk about a catchy guitar riff! C’mon, we’ve all experienced it: that electric three chord glee that lodges itself in your corpus callosum like some sort of sonic wedgie. To me this sums up the opening riff off Brake’s first single.
Give a listen and hail hail rock and roll.
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What is it with the Brits? Why do they make such damn good music? I know the Art Brut album is really gimmicky and kind of a knock-off of The Fall, but it is a catchy album.