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"Quitter"

Quitter

 

Hailed as the "Next big thing" by… themselves, basically, and such an immense self-imposed pressure is quickly inhaled by the sawed-off Seventies' styled foursome and forcefully exhaled in the form of heavy hitting Hard Rock weighted with dense riffs and Rock star excess.

If this is the natural evolution of Stoner Rock, it makes perfect sense.

While Stoner's got its style, it's limited to the extent of content and sludgy guitar-now here's what happens when you add a conscientious vocalist and infuse melodic verses, where you pick up the levels, kick start the jams, benefit from a quick momentum gain-let's take "Black Box," and "Tear You Down" back to back for referential purposes, and
finish with a flourish three minutes later.

Don't quite get what "Quitter's" supposed to suggest but it's a lot easier to remember than "Roadsaw 75…" or maybe not.

Well they are anyway, led by the highly touted guitar/vocal tandem of Ross and Hassin, they successfully weave
moody intricacies to jazz up the flavor without dulling the taste. So the style's changed but the era's the same-they come at ya forthright with the classic early vibe of Foghat and Grand Funk with the spatial presence of Montrose.

Loose lips and lyrics, tight jeans and dark glasses, a missing "Whiskey Chixxx" demo… and somehow it all makes sense in this psychedelic swirl of flashing strobes and smoke that was and is Rock and Roll!
Released by Tortuga Recordings

Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu]
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