‘Dead Money’Vegas Kings
(MereNoise/MGM)
For a devoted music lover, nothing is more exciting than an excellent local band. Around since 2003, Brisvegan band Vegas Kings has produced a hell of a rocking album of punk/garage blues. With deliciously dirty bluesy guitar riffs, impetuous hard-hitting drums and a heavy punching bass, every element of this second album from the three-piece comes together brilliantly to create a strong, powerful and textured sound. Above all this, the band is led by vocals full of grunt, expressing lyrics of anger, melancholy and chaos. Retaining authenticity, the album refrains from being over-produced, maintaining the raw and organic affections in the band’s delivery. The energetic, highly intense, rambunctious feeling of the album is well varied, with contrasting songs such as ‘The Ballad of Broke Jim’ and ‘Daddy’s Gone’, belted out slow and full of angst. The Vegas Kings’ original songwriting is also juxtaposed with covers of Digger and the Pussycats and The Stooges, made to sound uniquely their own. Fun yet soulful, ‘Dead Money’ is an album that does everything rock music should do.
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