With the hushed commands “relax..” and “come here….”, powder-voiced axegirl Jane Jensen rocks hard, a fetishy little doll whispering over grinding chords.
The spacey guitar put me into a daze, and before I knew what was happening, the drums and overdrive roared in, only to quickly fade out, and I’d been won over.
I know, I know, these guys have been described as “Led Zeppelin-meets-Radiohead” a thousand times before… but fuck me, that’s seriously right on the money.
Many of the songs are heavy, but they’re heavy in a King’s X way, not heavy in a “we base our songs off the parts of Pantera songs we can actually play” way.
Part greaser rock, part melodic punk. There’s thoughtful, hard-livin’ lyrics, but there’s also countrified punk, and ’50-style whoa-whoa melody and harmony.