This is the second full-length effort from this Ayr three-piece. It’s the sort of album where the amount of graft put into it shows very clearly. These guys are clearly hard workers and are not afraid to show it. It might make for a tad heavy weather sometimes but at least that means there’s no filler here.
If anything, these guys are guilty of trying too hard, rather than not trying at all. This reviewer only wishes that he could make that criticism of more bands and artists these days. The sounds are set firmly in high-octane mode and this is clearly a record with the summer festival audience clearly in its sights. One can imagine this blaring out from car stereos as they speed gaily away from fields full of sweat-saturated, deafened music fans, dehydrated, over-exhausted but still desperate for more sounds.
The wedding of samba beats to saber-toothed guitar riffs is a tricky combination to pull off, but these guys have done so with style and no little panache. This record requires lots of energy to be poured into it but if and when you do so, the rewards will pay off handsomely.
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