I hadn't heard anything by these guys since the first album (my favorite part of which was the 30 second acoustic bit at the end of "White Sands," a tune that sounds nothing like anything else on the rest of the album). I read yesterday that they released an album called "Howl" a couple years back that completely confounded their fans with a much different style than their early JAMC-like stuff. It is described as having a very rural, backwoods country style. From the description, it sounds cool. Anyone heard it?
― Richard Wood Johnson, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)
chances are it's a dud, let's face it.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)
Leather jackets: always an essential wardrobe item
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)
ripping off Love & Rockets, they were OK the songs where they ripped off JAMC were pretty awful
― milo z, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)
I love the debut album. The follow-up was a bit of a rehash, not bad but not great. _Howl_ was indeed confounding but it's grown on me. The latest is a retreat back towards their earlier style but integrates some of the acoustic blues style of _Howl_. It's alright but hasn't made me play it more than a few times.
― Mr. Odd, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)
I want an album of songs that are like the outro to "White Sands." Does Howl fit the bill?
― Richard Wood Johnson, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)
I like the first album. I remember seeing the sleeve to Howl and thinking it was really fucking horribly ugly and high school-ish.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)
Does Howl fit the bill?
At some point in their history, every band with a schtick will record an "unplugged" album in an attempt to salve the insecurities they have about, well, being a band with a schtick. I quite like those first two albums and at the time the world needed some JAMC ripoffs.
I don't know what the hell compelled them to suddenly view themselves as Serious Artists but Howl (it's Ginsberg MAAAAN!) is several tragic steps backwards into hamfisted Americana fit for that restaurant in Ghost World or as an opening band for Blues Hammer.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)