Old Man Gloom (I thought it was “Oh My Gawd” the first time I saw it abbreviated) drift and drone, hammer and drive through meta-metal language and not.
Antecedents are the first Black Crowes album and glossed-up cock rockers like Buckcherry and Velvet Revolver. Scuzzy party rock sheathed in a too-slick package.
This five-song EP (three newbies plus St. Vitus and Black Oak Arkansas covers released on rare comps) comes like four years after the last Goatsnake release.
Contraband is a fantastic ALBUM, something you’ll want to play from start to finish, not unlike G N’ R’s Appetite For Destruction or the first few STP discs.
The band have a very firm grasp on what makes psychedelia work. They’re take what could’ve been incidental music and they’ve made it muscular and captivating.
The two discs are a buncha material recorded from 1997 to 2000, including Taste the Pain and Murder Company, a split with Sheavy, a Trouble cover, and more.
Mid-tempo’d hard rock that keeps the bottom moving and layers vocal melodies against well-arranged tunes. An affinity with bands typified as stoner rock.
Eleven tracks of patented Get Hip swagger-rock, big rock recorded on a little budget, just like New York Dolls and all the bands who’ve come in their wake.