There\u2019s an uncontained energy coming out of Detroit in the form the quartet known as The High Strung. The band manages to keep their guitar wailing and high octane rowdiness up to par on this, their seventh album. An outfit that bypass all the attempts at genre defying and the unusual niches their peers are trying to package themselves as, The High Strung are a straight-up guitar rock animal, plucking minor influences from all sides of the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll spectrum.<\/p>\n
With an extremely catchy rhythm section intact (the drummer and bassist have been working together for 10+ years), expect arena rock thundering, well-timed guitar solos and rapid fire drumming to hold these tunes together. The Motor City rockers take a very \u201860s spirit, \u00e0 <\/b>la the pre-Tommy<\/i> Who era.\u00a0 The songs are quick and to the point; there is no noodling or <\/i>aimless wandering to be found here. Meanwhile, they subtly add in some Beach Boys-esque pop, traces of blues guitar work, and even an organ on \u201cBrain K\u201d and keys on \u201cSingle_Alone.\u201d \u201cRats Rats Rats\u201d is perhaps the disc highlight, approaching psych rock, but never unnecessarily complicating their time honored formula. Frontman Josh Malerman has an interesting perspective with his lyrics, and even if you\u2019re not quite sure what he\u2019s singing about, you\u2019re bound to be hanging on every word.<\/p>\n
Though they existed in relative obscurity for a decade, last year Showtime picked up the band\u2019s song \u201cThe Luck You Got,\u201d a power pop gem, for the William H. Macy series Shameless<\/i>. Not too shabby for a band who once did a tour of libraries that went as far as Guantanamo Bay and who laid to rest their tour van of four straight years on the steps of the Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland.\u00a0 And really, how could you not like a band with a song titled \u201cSometimes It\u2019s Odd Sometimes It\u2019s Like God\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":30972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8858],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-42652","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-high-strung","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42652","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42652"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}