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"Beautiful Creatures" Beautiful Creatures |
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This new record reeks of cool… I mean it fills your senses and leaves ya there with your tongue hanging out and you're a sweat stained shirt soaked with perspiration and ready to be wrung out and reused-such is the vibe of good Rock & Roll music, loud, trashy and without prohibition… What I'm getting from
this is the continued use of instrumental insolence, an image torn of
yesterday's grease and leather, today's reenlistment of it, throttle-squeezing
Wrench Rock with an aim for nothing more than rule breaking, feather ruffling,
and good times These guys come off like an '01 G n' R, of that same magnitude and though there will be only one and maybe no one can approach such a significance in a day of seen and done it all and what next, these guys, Beautiful Creatures-balls, bad behavior and ground-in philosophy to go anywhere their bikes wanna take 'em! Upon unfolding the CD insert, there's this guy who's a dead ringer for Val Kilmer in the Jim Morrison role, so naturally, there's the singer… then in actually reading the contents, there's Joe LeSte listed in the credits-okay so which Bang Tango cover we looking for? And damned, sure enough
it's his new band. Ya know a thing about Bang Tango was they BC's got a bit of that Funkadelic charm that first gave the old BT style relevance in a mindwarp-ing sorta way, but in truth there's little similarity between the bands-in fact I didn't even know it was him till I saw the name! These guys are way heavier-"Wasted," "Step Back," Kick Out," all go to the volcanic extreme-there's a few of the sit n' play variety, but minus the endless clichés. If anything, there's more a that short-lived early Soundgarden, Warrior Soul, Mindfunk, Almighty blow-out plus an added measure of grit, groove and volume, all of which makes for a simply "beautiful" listening experience for anyone but your neighbors. Released by Warner Bros. Records: http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/ Review by Vinnie Apicella
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