Indianapolis’ power blues-rock duo Brother O’ Brother‘s new EP, Monster Truck (which you can download for free, by the way), rumbles by as loud and hard as its namesake.
Opening with “Unleavened,” the band chugs through a swampy mix of blues wails, garage rock riffs, and metal drums. The title track refers to the power of a crazy relationship. There’s no sex like crazy sex, after all. “GOLD” is a blazing psychedelic jam that has the band in fifth gear by this point.
“Howlelujah” is, apart from being one of the best-named tracks of 2018, a loud, sweaty, dangerous blues cut that plows through muddy distortion and rams through your speakers with a wild jam. “Must Be Blind” is a screaming, shredding diatribe against a bad relationship the singer should’ve seen coming, but it was too hot to resist at the time. The EP ends with “Omni,” another powerful drum and guitar slugfest.
Monster Truck is over far too soon, but any rock like this you can get is good – especially when it’s this good.
Keep your mind open.
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