Lonely Kamel – Shit City

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2. White Lines
3. Is It Over?
4. I Feel Sick
5. Seal The Perimeter
6. Freezing
7. BFD
8. Falling Down
9. Nightjar
“It has taken a few years, but is back. With even longer hair and an even more old fashioned sound. has not been known for being contemporary. On the contrary. The stoner and grunge influences (meaning the QOTSA / desert sound) has been pushed further to the background and instead a peculiar mix of bluesy early seventies hardrock played with punk attitude has become more important.”
“All the big boys of many decades ago: Led Zeppelin, Clapton and even Deep Purple can be heard in the nine songs of ‘s fourth album “”. Only the heavy riffing indicates this album must be a bit more modern than 1972. Do not expect a big change of direction, still stampedes like a steam roller gone astray, crushing everything and everyone on its path, but there is one big difference: this album is better than everything they have put out before. There are hardly any weak moments on “” and the groovy rock ‘n’ roll makes you want to move and shake from the start to the very end of the album. has created a broth of musical styles: hardrock, blues, psychedelics, boogie-woogie and even punk. The end result is a bit like that of fellow Norwegians Turbonegro, only a bit less coarse and sleazy. It still needs to be seen if ‘s career will be as incredible as that of Turbonegro and Norwegians can stick stamps on their letters. I fear not, the market for such retro rock is ‘ even in Scandinavia ‘ not that big.”
“”” closes off with a faithful copy of the old doom classic “Nightjar” by British cult heroes Necromandus. The original being from 1973, there could hardly have been a better mission statement than this. Unfortunately, has forgotten to make the song their own and has limited itself to faithfully reproducing this remarkable song note by note. This makes “Nightjar” ‘ as good as the song is ‘ the only miss on an, other than that, impressive album.”
Lords Of Metal, Jan-Simon
LP album
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