A Seattle trio who are keeping the tradition of aggressive, raw, and animated sounds from their hometown alive, Stereo Creeps has been actively around for half a decade now. Sucks <\/i>comes highly anticipated after several curious singles and cassette release in 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cHide & Peek\u201d gets the album off to a rowdy and dissonant start with a mashing of noisy punk rock sounds, and \u201cThey’re All The Same\u201d thumps and shakes with a dirty rock ‘n’ roll spirit and a catchy chorus that The Rye Coalition would admire. Elsewhere, \u201cHot Apartment!\u201d is a quick display of thundering, calculated energy, while \u201cThought & Prayers\u201d ends side A with the powerful, Old School punk nods on a very topical anthem. <\/p>\n
Side B does some damage, too. \u201cAncient Accents\u201d starts out knee-deep in grunge territory before the very brief and fuzzed out restraint of \u201cNot Going Anywhere.\u201d Deeper cuts yield the sludgy Black Sabbath-esque meets angular indie rock of \u201cMel’s Hole,\u201d and \u201cHave I Been Erased?\u201d ends the pummeling with a stadium rock rager that could gain the band worldwide fame in the same way that everyone adores Queens Of The Stone Age.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Interesting enough, both sides are themed here. Side A, \u201cThe Party,\u201d is very much the quicker, more deliberate portion, while Side B, \u201cThe Hangover,\u201d has the outfit manipulating their skill with much precision and exploratory ideas. <\/p>\n
Although you’ll hear traces of Soundgarden, Radiohead, The Ramones, The Melvins, David Bowie, and Sonic Youth on this record, ultimately Stereo Creeps is their own animal. This is a beast of an album that’s artistic, heavy, loud, upfront and often intimidating but with much intrigue. <\/p>\n
For the vinyl crowd, the pressing of 300 on translucent jet blue marble wax is just about sold out, which is the only way to get a physical copy of this one anyway, so you better move quick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10385],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-45648","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-stereo-creeps","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45648","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=45648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45648"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}