{"id":1603,"date":"2018-01-03T20:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T04:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2018-01-03T20:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T04:29:15","slug":"defection-cd-review-by-growingoldwithrockandroll-blogspot-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slowburningcar.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Defection CD Review By GrowingOldWithRockAndRoll.Blogspot.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing Old With Rock and Roll
\nReviews, commentary, interviews. The obsessiveness of one of my biggest obsessions reaches a new peak here as I assume anyone cares what I think. Welcome. :)Growing Old With Rock and Roll Saturday, December 23, 2017
\nSlow Burning Car – Defection (2017)
\nWritten by Jason Hillenburg
\n The fourth release from Slow Burning Car, Defection, finds this Los Angeles five piece refining their hard-hitting, varied musical attack in a way that makes clear they are plotting an artistic trajectory intended to carry them for years to come. The band has existed in different incarnations and configurations during its lifespan and the base quartet has a renewed focus for this release that gives it urgency fourth albums from anyone seldom possess. There\u2019s no wasted motion over the course of these ten songs and a fierce intelligence burns within their potent mix of rock, metal, and emo influences. They definitely possess a recognizable sound nodding to tradition, but there\u2019s just as much individuality in what they do that helps these songs come across as fresh and surprisingly original \u2013 particularly using two singers, one male and the second female, with powerful results. Slow Burning Car is experiencing mounting success in a competitive indie music scene and Defection poises them for rising into another, much higher level, of visibility.
\n There\u2019s an inexorable quality their twin guitar attack brings to the opener \u201cAlpha Duplicor\u201d without ever overwhelming listeners. Tony Spiropoulos\u2019 vocals veer effectively from a near conversational style during the verses into full on, highly musical wailing with each chorus and remains convincing throughout. One of the more accelerated numbers on Defection comes with the breakneck power chord riffing of \u201cSoul Crimes\u201d and Spiropoulos unleashes a mighty vocal attack here that commands immediate attention. It\u2019s one of the band\u2019s finer lyrical numbers, as well, and cut to fit the arrangement with lock step precision. Jesse Damon and Tommy Marcel are a hard-hitting guitar tandem, but Spiropoulos; bass playing and Adam Idell\u2019s athletic drumming gives the guitarists a solid foundation to play over. The punky flavor delivered with \u201cSoul Crimes\u201d asserts itself again with the track \u201cDevil in the Room\u201d and Spiropoulos adopts a similar vocal approach to the album\u2019s first song while spinning it in a slightly different direction. The performances on Defection are uniformly pared down to their essential elements and shorn of even a hint of musical fat. Co-vocalist Krista Ray makes her presence felt rather strongly on the track \u201cYou Can\u2019t Stay Here\u201d and, despite its high octane tempo, it\u2019s a song providing a nicely nuanced take on a familiar situation.
\n A very different side of the band emerges with the track \u201cBedtime\u201d and its acoustic strains are colored with glistening touches of keyboard that never stretch the boundaries of tastefulness. Spiropoulos\u2019 hushed vocal gives the song a moody current that contrasts nicely with the arrangement. This theme continues with the song \u201cChrysanthemum\u201d and it manifests the same lightly progressive rock sound we heard on \u201cBedtime\u201d. The vocal is a little wider open here, but there\u2019s much of the same sort of theatricality coming through. The song runs nearly five minutes but never feels like it. Strong guitar returns with the album finale \u201cClouds\u201d and it alternates between diffuse cathedrals of sound and powerful riffing with a straight ahead, head down quality. Defection is quite a varied release that manages to convincingly touch on a number of genres without ever losing credibility. Slow Burning Car has made an impressive mark with this release and it shows a band with no signs of peaking as an outfit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growing Old With Rock and Roll Reviews, commentary, interviews. The obsessiveness of one of my biggest obsessions reaches a new peak here as I assume anyone cares what I think. Welcome. :)Growing Old With Rock and Roll Saturday, December 23, 2017 Slow Burning Car – Defection (2017) Written by Jason Hillenburg The fourth release from Slow Burning Car, Defection, finds this Los Angeles five piece refining their hard-hitting, varied musical attack in a way that makes clear they are plotting an artistic trajectory intended to carry them for years to come. The band has existed in different incarnations and configurations during its lifespan and the base quartet has a renewed focus for this release that gives it urgency fourth albums from anyone seldom possess. There\u2019s no wasted motion over the course of these ten songs and a fierce intelligence burns within their potent mix of rock, metal, and emo influences. They definitely possess a recognizable sound nodding to tradition, but there\u2019s just as much individuality in what they do that helps these songs come across as fresh and surprisingly original \u2013 particularly using two singers, one male and the second female, with powerful results. Slow Burning Car is experiencing mounting success in a competitive indie music scene and Defection poises them for rising into another, much higher level, of visibility. There\u2019s an inexorable quality their twin guitar attack brings to the opener \u201cAlpha Duplicor\u201d without ever overwhelming listeners. Tony Spiropoulos\u2019 vocals veer effectively from a near conversational style during the verses into full on, highly musical wailing with each chorus and remains convincing throughout. One of the more accelerated numbers on Defection comes with the breakneck power chord riffing of \u201cSoul Crimes\u201d and Spiropoulos unleashes a mighty vocal attack here that commands immediate attention. It\u2019s one of the band\u2019s finer lyrical numbers, as well, and cut to fit the arrangement with lock step precision. Jesse Damon and Tommy Marcel are a hard-hitting guitar tandem, but Spiropoulos; bass playing and Adam Idell\u2019s athletic drumming gives the guitarists a solid foundation to play over. The punky flavor delivered with \u201cSoul Crimes\u201d asserts itself again with the track \u201cDevil in the Room\u201d and Spiropoulos adopts a similar vocal approach to the album\u2019s first song while spinning it in a slightly different direction. The performances on Defection are uniformly pared down to their essential elements and shorn of even a hint of musical fat. Co-vocalist Krista Ray makes her presence felt rather strongly on the track \u201cYou Can\u2019t Stay Here\u201d and, despite its high octane tempo, it\u2019s a song providing a nicely nuanced take on a familiar situation. A very different side of the band emerges with the track \u201cBedtime\u201d and its acoustic strains are colored with glistening touches of keyboard that never stretch the boundaries of tastefulness. Spiropoulos\u2019 hushed vocal gives the song a moody current that contrasts nicely with the arrangement. This theme continues with the song \u201cChrysanthemum\u201d and it manifests the same lightly progressive rock sound we heard on \u201cBedtime\u201d. 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