Driving Detroit rock spiked with punk and psych
Detroit may have taken a body blow from the recession, but it only seems to have intensified the city’s music. This Motor City quartet has the aggressiveness of a ‘70s punk band weaned on the Stooges, Amboy Dukes and MC5 and the range of a band that’s listened through the transitions from garage to psychedelia and punk to post-punk. Things fall apart, Velvet Underground-style, on “Ideas to Use,†but snap back together for the driving bass-guitar-drums riff of “Safe Effect.†Touches of organ and a low-key lead on “River Perspective†down shift momentarily, as does the experimental “Poems,†but it’s the mid-tempo, hard-strummed numbers that will move you and make you move. [©2011 hyperbolium dot com] 