

These songs have more to do with contemporary R&B than rock & roll, but Sultana has a rocker's love of the big guitar solo, and when she turns up the amps and lets rip on "Big Smoke," "Murder to the Mind," and "Pink Moon," she reveals a winning confidence and an ability to make her instrument snarl eloquently. The 23-year-old Australian first found an audience through YouTube videos in which she created over-the-top guitar soundscapes through the use of looping pedals, and while Flow State is clearly intended to also show off her gifts as a vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (she plays all the instruments on these recordings), her guitar work shines pretty bright on this album. Reminds us of the Garden State soundtrack in all of its closeness and. Since Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck don't mean much to most folks under 30 these days, they'd like to see some younger fret-wrestlers who will inspire America's youth to step away from their laptops and pick up a six-string.Īs it happens, it might be a guitar heroine who does the trick, as evidenced by Tash Sultana on her first full-length album, 2018's Flow State. The vital new album and Merge debut of Friendship, the Philly-via-Maine outfit. Various Artists - Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Andersonīluewerks Vol.With the sales of electric guitars not what they once were, many music business commentators have spoken out on the need for a new generation of guitar heroes. Soulfly - Totem īenny blanco / BTS / Snoop Dogg - Bad Decisions Thanks to the cocoon of the intimate environment they’d built and relaxed working practices, the results made for the most personal Interrupters album to date, as well as being the one all four feel most connected to.Ĭaroline Polachek - Pang It’s further evidenced in the uplifting spirit and the glittering rollcall of guests (Tim Armstrong, Rhoda Dakar, Hepcat, The Skints) involved too. The record took shape in an unforced and organic fashion, and the recording process was evidently a fun one, which is reflected in the sound of the album, gliding across a spectrum of breathless punk rock, doo-wop, gospel, dancehall, and the band’s customary nods to the lineage of two-tone. After building a home studio in their garage together, Kevin stepped up and took charge of production duties to become “the accountable one” this time around. Together during lockdown, Aimee Interrupter, partner and guitarist Kevin Bivona, and his younger twin brothers, Jesse (drums) and Justin (bass), decided to put idle hands to work. This 14-track opus is the real deal it’s a story of survival, a story of resilience, by a band being bold and rejecting the easy impulses of simply repeating what’s worked before.

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