Visqueen-Message to Garcia (Music Review)
By Andrew Gable • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Categories, Punk/New Wave/Hardcore, ReviewsVisqueen
Message to Garcia
Local 638 Records
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Links: http://www.visqueenonline.com/
Visqueen on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Visqueen/60365776116?v=app_19935916616
Local 638’s WebSite: http://www.local638records.com/
Submitted for your approval: Visqueen’s Message to Garcia. Start with sugar-sweet vocals recalling rockers (Jefferson) Starship and Heart’s guitars from the early 80s. Include the drums and overall punch of early 90s sweethearts Veruca Salt, maybe even the vocal harmonies Indigo Girls. And, here you have a wonderfully refreshing, no bullshit rock album. In other words, unpretentious and simple, with straight forward rock beats, bouncing bass lines, and anthems begging to be sung.
In the current age of vacuous pop music, metal bands trying to out-scream and out-shock each other, and alternative bands investing a great deal of energy in not being themselves, Visqueen bring nutritious food to the table for the hungry music fan.
Songs of note are “Beautiful Amnesia,” “Fight for Love,” and “So Long.” The former two are straight forward rock songs, with standard palm-muted guitars and throbbing bass lines and well-crafted harmonies. “Beautiful Amnesia” also includes lap steel guitars without drifting into country-rock. The latter track is a slower song built on a piano and cello(?) backing up the soulful blues of Ms. Flotard, talking about stepping to tell the world what she experienced while caring for her father (while making this album and sweating over multiple side projects as well).
According to the band’s website, this third LP is to a large extent a celebration and eulogy to singer Rachel Flotard’s father.
Highly recommended for fans of the Donnas, Heart, Veruca Salt, and any good roots-rock and roll.
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Andrew Gable is a 30-something journalism student in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has played in a few local bands and is an avid collector of music. Outside of sharing his opinion with many people who don’t ask for it, he can be found drawing, skateboarding, and drinking copious amounts of coffee at local coffee establishments.
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