Being completely easily amused, there\u2019s nothing I love more than getting mail (although that could be because I don\u2019t get bills yet); of course, packages from the Vault blow college solicitations or a report card right out of the water. <\/p>\n
Even better? When what shows up on my porch becomes an instant favorite, like my latest discovery, Victor Bravo (made up of lead singer\/guitarist Collin Frendz, Dani Read on bass and drummer Dan Collins.) The New York City garage rockers\u2019 self-released EP, Shut Out the Sky<\/i>, is a four-song, sixteen-minute slice of snarling punk plucked straight from Iggy Pop or Husker Du\u2019s back catalog. <\/p>\n
Setting the album\u2019s raw, immediate tone, opener \u201cDallas\u201d takes a deceptively laid-back guitar riff and sets it on fire, transforming the track into a slow-burning buildup of throbbing drums and Frendz\u2019s howling, occasionally warbling vocals. Confrontational and crunching in the vein of old-school punk, \u201c \u201cBinge\u201d is resoundingly Shut Out the Sky<\/i>\u2019s standout; <\/i>with its choppy bursts of guitars and Frendz\u2019s manic posturing, the track is nothing short of dynamic, seamlessly mixing catchy refrains with aggressive energy. <\/p>\n And of all the odd song-titles popping up lately, \u201cSarbanes-Oxley\u201d is one of the weirder ones. Named for the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 (thank you, Wikipedia\u2026), \u201cSarbanes-Oxley,\u201d though less immediately urgent than \u201c Rounding things out is \u201cToxic Tornado,\u201d a wailing, declarative rocker reminiscent of the Ramones. Tightly executed and brimming with frantic exuberance, \u201cTornado,\u201d owing to its vigorous, stick-in-your-head lyrics, is also the most accessible on the EP. <\/p>\n On Shut Out the Sky, <\/i>Victor Bravo definitely live up to its claim of \u201cmaking anthems for wreckage.\u201d If this is what they can do with a four-track EP, a full-length album is sure to be absolutely explosive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":28725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7926],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-40218","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-victor-bravo","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40218","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40218"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}