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Elbow Strike - Planning Great Adventures
Plenty of big frequency boom on this one, from the head snapping snare which kicks off the album to the flood of bottom which carries the whole album. There's massive riff-o-matics and choruses that stick in your head all over the place. Hails the old time psychedelic blues boogie first fed us by Page and Winter. A program fitting like a round peg into album structures that range from modern poetry as art to the grunge memories of yesteryear. Everywhere lurking behind though is the riff monster, waiting to come get your ass. When it hits, you will move, and your mind will go ahhhhhh! Things go tribal with "Momma Is Cooking Chips" raising a jungle beat to weave into a hillbilly foot stomp. It finally comes home with a funky harmonic part that sounds like something Aerosmith tried on draw the line. Planning Great Adventures is like that everywhere. Like vodka in a blender with all kinds of fruit thrown in!
"Monster" is like that good stuff redux as it fades into rumbling feedback before "Stoneman" grooves back into the flow. Repping the first blend of hip hip flavor that really is recognizable against the sonic din. It's like that banana pepper leaf after a bowl of good kush. I do suggest keeping the volume pulled a bit with headphones on the long journey to protect your ears from the leveling. Car stereo though, you can blast through the neighborhood wit dis shit like a staunch dog. The buzz kicks in full as "U.F.O." brings that long shadow of the mighty cowbell back out to trot around the roller rink a time or two. "Up compiting" could have been on any Bush album (I'm not sure it wasn't) or 90% of the bands from the 90's for that matter. A strong retro vibe permeates most of what goes on here, and I think how it's done is an overall quality of Elbow Strike as tastemasters.
Cool is a factor here. Sometimes you think, there's a piece not quite fitting, before you realize you're down this alley for a reason. Probably to get set up and piled with some rock n roll. Time, space and energy all factor on numbers like "We're Not Alone"; it's kinda dark, it's got a part that drives, a part that flows, and an ode to loved ones thrown in for good measure. Giving an overall feeling of remembrance, or perhaps some Italian Art. Album closer "Winter Night" wings out on something that sounds like The Police paying respects to Alice In Chains covering classic BTO. Did I mention this music was cool? contact: http://www.elbow-strike.com/ , elbowstrike@libero.it
To have your material reviewed, send on disc to:
Underground Reviews
6422 Hwy 140
Adairsville, GA 30103
or digitally via ugr.geo@yahoo.com subject: reviews
Elbow Strike - Planning Great Adventures
Plenty of big frequency boom on this one, from the head snapping snare which kicks off the album to the flood of bottom which carries the whole album. There's massive riff-o-matics and choruses that stick in your head all over the place. Hails the old time psychedelic blues boogie first fed us by Page and Winter. A program fitting like a round peg into album structures that range from modern poetry as art to the grunge memories of yesteryear. Everywhere lurking behind though is the riff monster, waiting to come get your ass. When it hits, you will move, and your mind will go ahhhhhh! Things go tribal with "Momma Is Cooking Chips" raising a jungle beat to weave into a hillbilly foot stomp. It finally comes home with a funky harmonic part that sounds like something Aerosmith tried on draw the line. Planning Great Adventures is like that everywhere. Like vodka in a blender with all kinds of fruit thrown in!
"Monster" is like that good stuff redux as it fades into rumbling feedback before "Stoneman" grooves back into the flow. Repping the first blend of hip hip flavor that really is recognizable against the sonic din. It's like that banana pepper leaf after a bowl of good kush. I do suggest keeping the volume pulled a bit with headphones on the long journey to protect your ears from the leveling. Car stereo though, you can blast through the neighborhood wit dis shit like a staunch dog. The buzz kicks in full as "U.F.O." brings that long shadow of the mighty cowbell back out to trot around the roller rink a time or two. "Up compiting" could have been on any Bush album (I'm not sure it wasn't) or 90% of the bands from the 90's for that matter. A strong retro vibe permeates most of what goes on here, and I think how it's done is an overall quality of Elbow Strike as tastemasters.
Cool is a factor here. Sometimes you think, there's a piece not quite fitting, before you realize you're down this alley for a reason. Probably to get set up and piled with some rock n roll. Time, space and energy all factor on numbers like "We're Not Alone"; it's kinda dark, it's got a part that drives, a part that flows, and an ode to loved ones thrown in for good measure. Giving an overall feeling of remembrance, or perhaps some Italian Art. Album closer "Winter Night" wings out on something that sounds like The Police paying respects to Alice In Chains covering classic BTO. Did I mention this music was cool? contact: http://www.elbow-strike.com/ , elbowstrike@libero.it