Greasy classic blues-rock right here, folks. Come and get it, fresh from Australia, courtesy of a quartet of Aussie-rock veterans who formed new supergroup Datura4 and released this debut in the middle of summer 2015.<\/p>\n
Most of this would fit right on your local classic rock radio playlist, as it approximates the hard rock swagger and light psychedelic touch that characterized the 1970s. But even if this sounds familiar, it\u2019s deft and dirty, bluesy boogie riff-rock that kicks your ass and buys you a pint after. One could also use that description for Wolfmother and perhaps Rival Sons as current bands who reach back to move forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother Planet\u201d meshes mid \u201860s British Invasion psychedelia, the riff from \u201cSpirit In The Sky,\u201d and an ascending bassline to create a sublime, toe-tapping rocker. The monster riff of \u201cYou Ain\u2019t No Friend Of Mine\u201d cuts to the chase but leaves room for a more pensive midsection, while the rollicking opener \u201cOut With The Tide\u201d rides a riff that opens wide, closes, opens wide again, repeat until you\u2019re ready to either dance or notice you are driving 90 mph in a car wash. <\/p>\n
\u201cJourney Home\u201d is what happens when a dirty low-end riff meets a Blur song (hint: it\u2019s quite good) while \u201cHoonsville\u201d is even better, an instrumental trip that sounds a bit like Ted Nugent used to without a wango in sight. (Digression: I automatically like any song more if it does not start with the words \u201cAwright, uz ze wango ze tango, one two three faw,\u201d and I like much of Ted\u2019s classic material before he turned Republican. Just thought I\u2019d share).<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not much blues to be found save for the title track, which is solid but doesn\u2019t offer much that others haven\u2019t said many, many times over. Skip ahead to the handclaps, cranked-up wall of slide guitars and party vibe that results in \u201cPissin\u2019 Up The Wall,\u201d the perfect song for your next party (provided your friends drink beer instead of martinis). \u201cKilljoy\u201d offers a fine riff but little else, its intended midtempo atmospherics not really suiting this band\u2019s approach. \u201cLove To Burn\u201d works as a closer, a seven-minute slow burner with overtones of Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull and Edgar Winter; it never really catches fire the way it threatens to, but that spooky, hazy nature is appealing all the same.<\/p>\n
Bands with this kind of approach threaten to veer either generic or reverent and are defined by their influences, but Datura4 mostly avoids that trap because of the sheer ass-kicking beer-swilling Australian fun and riffage at work here. Lyrically mundane, perhaps, and it really doesn\u2019t break new ground, but it\u2019s a fun no-bullshit rock album that clears the palate in this summer heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":32453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9681],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-44212","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-datura4","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44212","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44212"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}