Guitar rock. It can mean a million different things
to just as many people. Beat Bands
from 60’s-era UK, Thin Lizzy’s twin guitar attack and Seaweed’s sweat blasting
riffage all qualify. The guitar
rock I’m thinking of right now is more along the lines of high-volume,
hair-flyin’, fuck-everything-else-we’re-busy-destroying-eardrums kinda guitar
rock. California X is the latest to explode onto the punk and indie scene
with this sort of guitar rock. A
powerful trio outta Amherst, MA, California X’s sonic assault pays a strong nod
not only to 80’s forefathers Dinosaur Jr. (hometown heroes) and Husker Du, but
to bands that more immediately followed in those bands’ footsteps such as the
Nirvana and early Foo Fighters lineage.
The thing that really helps push California X ahead of the pack is the
way they develop their songs into future-punk anthems, a-la Jeff The
Brotherhood or Ex-Cult. One need
look (or listen) no further than their self-titled debut LP, courtesy of Don Giovanni Records, for 8 prime
examples of scorching, and essentially timeless, rock ‘n’ roll blasts. It really is as simple as that!
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