That’s the cover of www.coldwarkids.com. Inside they have a pretty cool picture diary/blog of their current tour. It fits with my current view of this band: Pretty Cool. Thankfully, this is my evolved opinion. My initial listen of “Robbers & Cowards” led me to believe this is just a slightly more listenable version of Kings of Leon.
I was wrong.
Partially.. Take KoL and throw in a bit of Walkmen and something from the Mississippi Delta. What?
Yeah.. there is a pretty apparent Gospel sound throughout the album which I actually ended up really liking. There even is this one song (We Used to Vacation) that I swear sounds like whatever that 90’s song that started “I’ve been a baaad baaaaad girl”.. can’t remember what it was called…*
They seem to have a pretty standard post-alt rock setup… drum set, bass, piano and however many overdubbed guitars are necessary for the song… he’s got the voice of your classic rocker, not especially melodic or tuneful, but still pretty engaging.
Lyrically? They have gotten pretty good reviews around the interdumptruck for “deep-soulful-lyrics” but I don’t know how much I agree with that. Choruses are pretty catchy and ever now and again they make a surprising rhyme but I don’t see anything especially wonderful in them. Remember Jeff Buckley? Someone somewhere stated that their song “Passing the Hat” was channeling him. Meh.
My recommendations are “Saint John” and “Hang Me Up To Dry”…
You can download a bunch of MP3s from their EPs on the cold war kids website… I suggest you do.
In fact, pickup the disc.
I really like it. I wasn’t absolutely astounded by it, but it adds a nice dimension to my Zen’s Random Play all.
*I apologize for the disjointed style of this horrid post. I am hungover and tired and can’t seem to concentrate on something for more than a couple seconds.
I was wrong.
Partially.. Take KoL and throw in a bit of Walkmen and something from the Mississippi Delta. What?
Yeah.. there is a pretty apparent Gospel sound throughout the album which I actually ended up really liking. There even is this one song (We Used to Vacation) that I swear sounds like whatever that 90’s song that started “I’ve been a baaad baaaaad girl”.. can’t remember what it was called…*
They seem to have a pretty standard post-alt rock setup… drum set, bass, piano and however many overdubbed guitars are necessary for the song… he’s got the voice of your classic rocker, not especially melodic or tuneful, but still pretty engaging.
Lyrically? They have gotten pretty good reviews around the interdumptruck for “deep-soulful-lyrics” but I don’t know how much I agree with that. Choruses are pretty catchy and ever now and again they make a surprising rhyme but I don’t see anything especially wonderful in them. Remember Jeff Buckley? Someone somewhere stated that their song “Passing the Hat” was channeling him. Meh.
My recommendations are “Saint John” and “Hang Me Up To Dry”…
You can download a bunch of MP3s from their EPs on the cold war kids website… I suggest you do.
In fact, pickup the disc.
I really like it. I wasn’t absolutely astounded by it, but it adds a nice dimension to my Zen’s Random Play all.
*I apologize for the disjointed style of this horrid post. I am hungover and tired and can’t seem to concentrate on something for more than a couple seconds.
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I would say gospel has been a part of rock and roll since its inception. Elvis, Jerry Lewis, Johnny Cash.. you can hear it in a lot of the Rolling Stones' stuff. As far as the presence of gospel in contemporary alternative rock, what about the new Arcade Fire album? It's oddly peppered with gospel-sounding stuff. It's even called "Neon Bible"...
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