While the iPod's recharging, I'm going through the stack of unlistened-to promos.
First up: Alabama Blues Machine, Must Be Love. White blues from Birmingham. Totally and utterly competent. Decent singer, better-than-decent guitarist, also horns and organ, the whole Chicago thing. "Must Be Love" is a nice moody blues-rock song. Nice boogie guitar on the intro to "Double R Shuffle." I'll never listen to this again.
The Biscuit Burners, Take Me Home: Slick nuevo bluegrass with breathy sub-Robinella vocals. They play around here a lot. Tone it down, sister. The second female vocalist is better. Songs about whiskey, wine, and Seldom Scene. If you miss Nickel Creek (I don't) this is for you.
The Black Ghosts, s/t. US release of bombastic UK electro duo's 2008 debut. Standard disco-fried indie rock. Nice laidback organ sound on "It's Your Touch." Damon Albarn's on "Repetition Kills You." Slick but mostly dull, best when it tries to get funky ("It's Your Touch," "Until It Comes Again"). Oh, is this still on?
First up: Alabama Blues Machine, Must Be Love. White blues from Birmingham. Totally and utterly competent. Decent singer, better-than-decent guitarist, also horns and organ, the whole Chicago thing. "Must Be Love" is a nice moody blues-rock song. Nice boogie guitar on the intro to "Double R Shuffle." I'll never listen to this again.
The Biscuit Burners, Take Me Home: Slick nuevo bluegrass with breathy sub-Robinella vocals. They play around here a lot. Tone it down, sister. The second female vocalist is better. Songs about whiskey, wine, and Seldom Scene. If you miss Nickel Creek (I don't) this is for you.
The Black Ghosts, s/t. US release of bombastic UK electro duo's 2008 debut. Standard disco-fried indie rock. Nice laidback organ sound on "It's Your Touch." Damon Albarn's on "Repetition Kills You." Slick but mostly dull, best when it tries to get funky ("It's Your Touch," "Until It Comes Again"). Oh, is this still on?
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