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EXCEPTIONAL | EXCELLENT | GOOD | FOR FANS OF | POOR ALBUMS PEOPLE ✪ NEWS ✪ NOISE BOX SET Guns N’ Roses Appetite For Destruction TALONS BLIND RIVER Boxset WE ALL KNOW BLIND RIVER or anyone who believes this band’s debut ereford instrumentalists Talons have aised from the ashes of metal-tinged Fis the greatest album of all time (and the always followed their own fl ight path, rockers Godsized and featuring members case is strong), this is the motherlode with Htheir apocalyptic post-hardcore lent a Rof UK lunatics Earls Of Mars, Blind River’s a remaster of the album itself, 5.1 audio cinematic slant courtesy of twin violins backing overtly-Southern rock sensibilities could seem version, art prints, B-sides and the Lies EP, the traditional drums-bass-two-guitar suspicious in the hands of a bunch of Brits, but plus extensive demos. The cost of line-up. For their third album, guitarists Oliver their eponymous debut is delivered with such admission to this super-deluxe edition Steels and Sam Jarvis have clearly invested in skill and conviction that it’s diffi cult not to get vault is the only snag, but it’s a signifi cant some quality reverb pedals, as they pursue a swept up by the good-time vibes. From the one for us; we think around £140 for a renewed sense of space and atmosphere hillbilly widdle of Going Nowhere to the 4-CD and 1 Blu-ray boxset is unjustifi able. in-between bursts of sludgy, detuned fuzz. Skynyrd-licks of Life Got Lost there’s still a For those who want it all, the MP3 version Tracks such as the pummelling Over And Again defi nitive Britishness that shines through, seems to off er the best value. mark this out as the group’s doomiest eff ort yet while Can’t Sleep Sober’s twin leads and riff s But we can’t argue with the musical – think Deftones meets Neurosis – but it also have the faintest whiff s of Maiden and Sabbath content here. The fi ve men who tracked at contains some of their most pensive moments respectively. Having not broken through with Sound City for the previously unreleased in Southern Shade. On this form, post-rock their respective bands Blind River could prove 25-song 1986 recordings that make up greatness is within Talons’ grasp. to have just the recipe for success. discs three and four of this boxset were Michael Astley-Brown Adam Rees already the real deal. 17 Download: The Drowning Download: Can’t Sleep Sober Rob Laing ALBUM Waiting To Derail Thomas O’Keefe with Joe Oestreich BETWEEN THE THE MAGPIE SALUTE HIGH WATER I ubtitled Ryan Adams And Whiskeytown, BURIED AND ME SAlt Country’s Brilliant Wreck, this AUTOMATA II memoir of Adams’ pre-solo career band or their debut of original material, Rich between 1997 and their 2000 breakup is Robinson’s band are really taking fl ight. By told by their former road manager O’Keefe hile part 1 played with texture, part II Fthe title track there are layers of muscular – about as reliable as eye witnesses get showcases the band’s innate ability to acoustic rhythm and electric unfolding because it was his job to keep the road- Wdraw kaleidoscopic brilliance using as magnifi cently in his and Marc Ford’s hands.For naive and often shambolic band on the many infl uences as possible. Over a shifting The Wind is exactly the kind of dynamic many tracks. It’s an insight into a remarkable era rhythmic landscape Paul Waggoner and Dustie fans would have hoped a reformed Zeppelin for Adams that he sometimes downplays. Waring sow all manner of dissonant melodies would have returned with, as its journey moves O’Keefe’s no-holds-barred account of the and fretboard acrobatics, with the 13-minute eff ortlessly from soothing to riff -driven before dismissals and drink is both entertaining saga of The Proverbial Bellows straddling the an Allman-esque duelling guitar break. and sobering, rather than sensationalist, thin line between brilliance and showing off . Vocalist John Hogg handles the more with Adams' prodigious songwriting talent Voices Of Trespass takes 70s prog back to the meditative and poignant Color Blind with equal at the centre. Written from the swing of the 30s and with banjos and accordions confi dence in ensemble playing that oozes photographic memory of a tour manager, it thrown in against blasts of extremity, this is a experience. The loss of the Crowes is still our touches on the realities Whiskeytown fi endishly inventive achievement. gain with these birds reborn. navigated, whilst being told with humour. Adam Rees Rob Laing Rob Laing Download: Voices Of Trespass Download: For The Wind SUMMER 2018 TOTAL GUITAR TGR309.mon_albums.indd 17 19/07/2018 15:39.

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