Whether making like an orchestral Mineral, alt-country weepy, or electronica-indie like +/-, Francis Garcia pours all of his being into every every serenade.
Stack Shiner’s dissonant melodies against Queens Of The Stone Age’s electrifying distortion, then add a very capable set of lungs and you’ve got Houston.
Country blues, acoustic guitar, sedate mutterings & rarely a standard 12-bar blues in sight. No SRV/Skynard/white boy bar band massacre of a pentatonic scale.
He’s got an attitude the size of a Mac truck, and a personality with the power to knock you down. This is the raw element, where it all began, the fountainhead.
Schatzi contributes three great songs to the split, two of which evoke the same energy as Motion City Soundtrack’s tracks, yet are less poppy and more moody.