Thursday, October 5, 2017

#2658 The Red Devils - King King

A lively little live romp.

It's weird to hear the singer bark things like "let's do a little blues!" when every song's so deeply indebted to the blues its hardly worth calling out.

Got repeatedly blueballed by songs where some kernel of repetition locked in and promised a gun that never went off. Which I guess is a very rock expectation. But when something tiptoes this close to the edge of blues restraint, its natural to want it to teeter off.

You have to admire that commitment, there's something pure about it. They chose an interesting place to draw the line. This manages to keep a lot of the smolder of the blues without ever quite flashing, and the listen might actually be more exciting for it 3.5/5

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