Todd Lewis has a Robert Plant vibrato that quakes with fury, trembles with passion and longing, and purrs like a finely-tuned muscle car at a stop light.
Throttlerod sound like they’ve been weaned on a steady diet of the first five ZZ albums and the singer’s raw shout sits atop the racket just perfectly.
For this split EP, the band is joined on vocals by stoner legend Wino (St. Vitus, Obsessed, Spirit Caravan). Sounds like a match made in heaven, and it is.
Sounding much less hard rock/metal than Payin’ the Dues, the ‘Copters cover two Smokey Robinson tunes, and The Flaming Sideburns’ “Ungrounded Confusion.”