The Brooklyn, New York quintet Zebedee return with a sophomore album, where their psych-rock ways are present and admired for a diverse ten songs that embrace the members\u2019 roots in Australia, Mexico, Canada and the United States. <\/p>\n
The building and swirling energy of the title track leads and makes an immediate impression thanks to Kelsey Van Mook\u2019s dense guitar licks and frontman Zebedee Row\u2019s flowing and deep vocals. \u201cfollow me, following followers.\u201d then continues with Don McKenzie\u2019s hard-hitting drums that suit the thick climate of the multi-faceted and powerful rock.<\/p>\n
Approaching the middle, the atmospheric and scrappy \u201cFor God\u2019s Sake\u201d comes with some charming vocal acrobatics and much melody, though it\u2019s the uniquely rhythmic \u201cDark Magik\u201d that soars with alt-rock moments and Michael Benham\u2019s meticulous bass acrobatics. \u201cIzon Horizon\u201d might be the best track present (although there isn\u2019t a dud to be found, really), where Fred Seddon\u2019s animated guitar complements the buzzing rhythm section and nearly prog-rock fueled ideas.<\/p>\n
Landing close to the end, the intimate \u201cI Don\u2019t Know Where Your Phone Is\u201d employs acoustic guitar but doesn\u2019t waste time escalating into a controlled chaos approach, and \u201cVulture Culture\u201d follows with a charged and post-punk flavored exit of raw intensity that expresses Row\u2019s disdain for the status quo. <\/p>\n
Influences like The Cramps, Queens Of The Stone Age, Black Flag, The Viagra Boys, Black Sabbath and Captain Beefhart won\u2019t be hard to spot here. Other genres like desert rock, surf-rock, stoner rock, jazz, funk, neo-psych, psychobilly and garage rock aren\u2019t off the table either. <\/p>\n
The effort was produced by the Grammy award winning engineer Daniel Avila, and it captures a band on their way to being an outfit that might just become everyone\u2019s new favorite rock band. Or maybe it\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":35177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[11035],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-47058","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-zebedee","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47058","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=47058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=47058"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=47058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}