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- Listening recommendations: Feel Lighter Tonight
Impressions
Dropping a
straight ahead rock record these days is a rather ballsy move, but
the laybacks seem to have done just that with feel lighter
tonight, a four track EP that would fit right into a rock music
landscape where Oasis and Blur still ruled supreme, and Nickelback
and their ilk had yet to shit things up for everyone else. This
Aussie export keeps the pacing just tight enough that when they start
pinning for Swedish girls on the song of the same name, it almost
seems out of place. A little too heavy on the earnestness for its own
good I feel (not that the other tracks are pulling punches either),
as if the band were aiming for rock ballad, but didn't want to commit
100%. They do seem to like hammering away on the whammy bar though,
with the title track and “just which way” showing these guys are
having fun and obviously know what they're doing (no guitar wank
here) when they shred. I thought it was all instrumental when it the
guitars finally subsided after more than a minute to let the lyrics
into play. As I mentioned before, not wordsmiths wielding the pen, but not cloying or angst ridden either. Maybe it's not their
goal to write really deep lyrical content, but the lyrics really are
the lowest point of an otherwise excellent EP.
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