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| Loud
Earth
| Sparks
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LOUD
EARTH
- Sparks
Green
Light Records
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Cut from
the same cloth as Atlanta’s Black Crowes and armed with a
vintage Stones-style raunch, Loud Earth keeps the guitars up front and
center with gut-level rock. Built around Jersey natives Christian Roreau
(vocals), Mike Askin and Rich Miele (guitar), Todd Erwin (bass) and Mike
Bennett (drums) the five deliver a primitive swell of chunky riffs and
lambasting rhythms. Leading the pack is “Rotten”, already a favorite
on local radio that grinds out a duel-guitar crunch and makes way for a
tasty little solo. Roreau’s vocals polish up the ruckus with a shot of
bar-room finesse.
“Midnight Bitch”, with its ample use of slide, feedback and
constrained vibrato is pure energy at it’s best. The song sees Askin
and Miele swapping licks with a Kossoff edge for a proper lesson in
rock-guitar. The riffs keep coming through “Poor Baby”, “She’s
Worth It”, “Better For You” and “No Good No More”. They even
get a little country in the southern-fried “Sorry”. A couple tracks
venture out of the box like the ballads “Bleed” and “Beautiful
Mess”. Even the mid-tempo “Squeeze n’ Pull” breaths new life
into old-hat rock standards. Never over done, the boys rely on a
piston-driven machine that churns out addicting rock and roll.
Website: Loud
Earth
Review by Todd
Smith http://www.thecutting-edge.net/
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