One of the more unsettling things about this job is that I get
\nthe chance to hear groups I normally wouldn’t consider listening
\nto… only to find myself wondering why I didn’t discover them
\nbefore.<\/p>\n
Such is the case with Galactic Cowboys, a group which shares a
\nkinship with labelmates King’s X. Their latest album
\nLet It Go<\/i> reminds me a lot of King’s X, while allowing
\nGalactic Cowboys the room to develop their own spin on the
\nsound.<\/p>\n
It would be too easy to draw comparisons between the two groups
\nNever mind the fact that King’s X drummer Jerry Gaskill appears on
\nthis disc and Ty Tabor assisted with “tone generation”, whatever
\nthat is. Never mind the fact that King’s X performed a song called
\n“Walter Bela Farkas” (named after one of the brainchilds behind
\nGalactic Cowboys) on their album
\nTape Head<\/i>. No, the greatest link between these two bands is
\nthat they create music so unique that most people don’t know just
\nwhere they fit into the musical spectrum. Actually, we should be
\nthankful that such bands refuse to follow cookie-cutter practices,
\neven if record sales are sacrificed as a result.<\/p>\n
In the case of
\nLet It Go<\/i>, parallels can be drawn to King’s X with the rich,
\nlayered harmony vocals, as well as to The Beatles for both the
\nvocals and the pop sensibility present throughout much of the
\nalbum. Tracks such as “Life And Times,” “Another Hill” and “hey
\nmr.” all serve as ample proof that Galactic Cowboys are a group who
\neasily could be superstars, if the right people were to only get
\nthe fat out of their ears and listen.<\/p>\n
Yet there is also a sense of humor (as well as social
\nresponsibility) mixed into the work of Galactic Cowboys, evidenced
\non “Disney’s Spinnin'”. If you don’t pay attention to the lyrics,
\nyou might just write this one off as a humorous little ditty – but
\nthere’s some powerful messages hidden behind the smile. Of course,
\nfor each serious moment, you need a lighter side like “Boom!”
\n(featuring chants from Gaskill – the drum work being taken over by
\nFarkas and bandmate Ben Huggins).<\/p>\n
\nLet It Go<\/i> rings up success after success – with one major
\nexception. “The Record Ends” starts off cute enough as a fable
\nabout both the end of a record and (more importantly) a
\nrelationship. Everything is fine… until the listener is presented
\nwith approximately nine minutes of cacaphony that sounds like The
\nWho trashing their stage show by throwing it into a wood chipper.
\nOne, maybe two minutes’ worth of this, I could forgive… but by
\nthe time the track hit the 12-minute mark, I was ready to rip the
\nspeakers out of my stereo and send them out the window.<\/p>\n
Despite this one misstep,
\nLet It Go<\/i> is a disc which should make the listener wonder
\nwhy Galactic Cowboys haven’t caught on in a big way. The talent is
\nthere, the songwriting is there… all that’s left is the huge
\nsales. And even with the debacle that closes the disc, this album
\nis one that deserves to be a smash on the charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7608],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-39449","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-galactic-cowboys","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39449"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}