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The Pinx
Look What You Made Me Do
Self Released
Rating: 3.141 out of 5

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The Pinx on MySpace:  http://www.myspace.com/thepinxatlanta

Here’s the recipe:

Take 1 portion each Queens of the Stone Age and Black Crows. Mix in what Led Zeppelin or later-days Who would have sounded like if they formed in 1990. Bake at 1969 degrees, remove from oven immediately to cool. Eat while warm. Or high.

Atlanta’s own power trio come with the noise in spades. Look What You Made me Do is more no-bullshit rock, by definition. Look it up. Go ahead. I’ll wait. You back now? Great. Sit down. This is what hair-metal bands from the 80s wanted to sound like the whole time: rockin’ solos, warm tight drums, screeching vocals, and simple lyrics. From the 2:30 minute electric guitar-powered instrumental jam track “The Owl,” to the lead track “The Desert,” to the 4 minute high-heat burner “Impatience,” the entire LP is produced in a very classic rock sound- slightly clipping guitars, vocals, and bass, with the soft, warm snare drum. Talented noodling guitar arpeggios, spastic, syncopated drums and woo-woo vocals are all in order.

I can smell the bare feet, the bad weed, and the spilled beer. I can see the paisley sheets and beads used for curtains swaying in the (very) smoky and slow breeze. I can see the dark aviator glasses, the black porno-moustaches, the tight ringer shirts, the bad early 70s haircuts, and the dirty jeans.(Whad’yaknow- without seeing the picture first, this almost exactly describes their picture on their promoter’s web page as indicated here:

RIYL:  Black Crows, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Kinks, and  (insert any roots-rock band name here).

 

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