{"id":1599,"date":"2018-01-03T20:25:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T04:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2018-01-03T20:25:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T04:25:27","slug":"defection-cd-review-by-musicyoucanuse-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/?p=1599","title":{"rendered":"Defection CD Review by MusicYouCanUse.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music You Can Use
\nA blog documenting the best in Americana music – blues, folk, bluegrass, country, and singer\/songwriter fare included. Pop music is our thing too – we want to cover it all for you the reader.Thursday, December 28, 2017 Slow Burning Car – Defection (2017) Written by Larry Robertson,
\n Slow Burning Car\u2019s Defection is a smashing rock album, nothing more and nothing less. If you want some no frills hard-rock with a modern edge then you\u2019ll get 10 tracks of firmly footed, rock solid, riff-centric groove that manages a few intricate stylistic juxtapositions throughout. Each song is individually sound and the entire album feels sonically cohesive as opposed to a simple collection of songs. The gusty, hard-rock slam of \u201cAlpha Duplicor\u201d sets things off like a powder keg fuse. Going back to the sort of heavy grooves that predated nu-metal\u2019s banal dreck; a dual guitar screech peddles lockstep riffs and spiraling solos that are kept aloft by a homing missile accurate rhythm section and memorable vocal patterns. Bands like Hum and Shiner went this route on their formative albums before Korn and Limp Bizket owned the airwaves and the only big difference between Slow Burning Car and the early works of 90s indie heavies is that they sport a more polished production sheen. \u201cSoul Crimes\u201d kicks into a punk-y overdrive all about the crunchy, guitar driven verses leading up to choruses that are inviting as all get-out in terms of catchy, harmonized wordplay. They interject the same invigorating flair into \u201cThe Orb\u201d but alter the background harmonies with some light auto-tuned vocals and dig into a tougher, percussive backbeat while pumping the final product full of noise rock guitar frequencies and sizzling lead\/solo outbursts. \u201cThe Devil in the Room,\u201d \u201cThe Sunday Derby\u201d and \u201cYou Can\u2019t Stay Here\u201d all use punk rock as the main root of their sound while screwing around with the abrasive noise rock textures and fireball guitar solos. The end result reminds me of experimental punks Victory and Associates or even late 90s legends Adayinthelife. These bands may not have been hugely popular though they delivered unique, innovative takes on punk\/hardcore\/rock that are well-worth a dedicated listen even long after their respective heydays.
\n Elsewhere the album goes for all-out experimentalism on the moody, acoustic pairing of \u201cBedtime\u201d and \u201cChrysanthemum.\u201d These subdued journeys into texture and dual acoustic guitar layers call to mind Husker Du\u2019s work circa the underrated Warehouse Songs. \u201cPolar Warden\u201d is a cosmic space-rock jam that\u2019s prime foundation lies within a looping, delay-drenched bass line as splashy cymbals, orchestral keyboards and flashes of drippy guitar melody color the track\u2019s background with plentiful harmonic, ambiguous shades of sound. Album endnote \u201cClouds\u201d is the heaviest track on Defection. It\u2019s not directly heavy seeing as highly melodic vocals, celestial guitar drones and plundering rhythms conjure more of a space-y, dreamy groove grind ala Hum\u2019s grand compositions on Downward is Heavenward. This piece even drifts off into the same sort of lumbering, pavement cracking riffs that Hum laid down during their heaviest moments.
\nDefection is a sonically diverse, ever-flowing set of songs that has numerous peaks and valleys. The band crests high and dives low to bring back the kind of energy that will have you nodding your head and tapping your toes throughout. Quite frankly, Defection doesn\u2019t have a dull song in the bunch and rock fans should have a field day with this one; good stuff through and through. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music You Can Use A blog documenting the best in Americana music – blues, folk, bluegrass, country, and singer\/songwriter fare included. Pop music is our thing too – we want to cover it all for you the reader.Thursday, December 28, 2017 Slow Burning Car – Defection (2017) Written by Larry Robertson, Slow Burning Car\u2019s Defection is a smashing rock album, nothing more and nothing less. If you want some no frills hard-rock with a modern edge then you\u2019ll get 10 tracks of firmly footed, rock solid, riff-centric groove that manages a few intricate stylistic juxtapositions throughout. Each song is individually sound and the entire album feels sonically cohesive as opposed to a simple collection of songs. The gusty, hard-rock slam of \u201cAlpha Duplicor\u201d sets things off like a powder keg fuse. Going back to the sort of heavy grooves that predated nu-metal\u2019s banal dreck; a dual guitar screech peddles lockstep riffs and spiraling solos that are kept aloft by a homing missile accurate rhythm section and memorable vocal patterns. Bands like Hum and Shiner went this route on their formative albums before Korn and Limp Bizket owned the airwaves and the only big difference between Slow Burning Car and the early works of 90s indie heavies is that they sport a more polished production sheen. \u201cSoul Crimes\u201d kicks into a punk-y overdrive all about the crunchy, guitar driven verses leading up to choruses that are inviting as all get-out in terms of catchy, harmonized wordplay. They interject the same invigorating flair into \u201cThe Orb\u201d but alter the background harmonies with some light auto-tuned vocals and dig into a tougher, percussive backbeat while pumping the final product full of noise rock guitar frequencies and sizzling lead\/solo outbursts. \u201cThe Devil in the Room,\u201d \u201cThe Sunday Derby\u201d and \u201cYou Can\u2019t Stay Here\u201d all use punk rock as the main root of their sound while screwing around with the abrasive noise rock textures and fireball guitar solos. The end result reminds me of experimental punks Victory and Associates or even late 90s legends Adayinthelife. These bands may not have been hugely popular though they delivered unique, innovative takes on punk\/hardcore\/rock that are well-worth a dedicated listen even long after their respective heydays. Elsewhere the album goes for all-out experimentalism on the moody, acoustic pairing of \u201cBedtime\u201d and \u201cChrysanthemum.\u201d These subdued journeys into texture and dual acoustic guitar layers call to mind Husker Du\u2019s work circa the underrated Warehouse Songs. \u201cPolar Warden\u201d is a cosmic space-rock jam that\u2019s prime foundation lies within a looping, delay-drenched bass line as splashy cymbals, orchestral keyboards and flashes of drippy guitar melody color the track\u2019s background with plentiful harmonic, ambiguous shades of sound. Album endnote \u201cClouds\u201d is the heaviest track on Defection. It\u2019s not directly heavy seeing as highly melodic vocals, celestial guitar drones and plundering rhythms conjure more of a space-y, dreamy groove grind ala Hum\u2019s grand compositions on Downward is Heavenward. 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