неделя, 6 май 2018 г.

Freeways - Cold Front EP (2017)

 


Do you like classic rock from the seventies? Not reinvented with the newer overtone of stoner wah wah pedals or 'vintage rock' vibes from the 2010s? Freeways is a new classic rock band that offers a really cool take on modern rock music. I am writing this review for them because they strike with the fact that they do not sound like the rest of the bands from the last years who try to make vintage sounding rock. Surely, it makes no sense to put all of these bands under one umbrella, especially since some of those folks have done a great job. That whole wave of vintage rock has given us some really sweet ass bands - Witchcraft, Horisont, Troubled Horse, Kadavar, to name some of the most popular suspects. Probably for various reasons, Freeways do not sound like any one of them. The most obvious ones being: they are not from Europe (Sweden and Germany, wink wink), and second, the music on the Cold Front EP is a lot closer to NWBHM than any of the new retro bands that have more in common with stoner rock. They could appeal to your dad, they could appeal to your buddy in rock guitar class. There is no way on Earth to tell that this is new music, and honestly, if I had no image or information and just music in my mental picture, I would have guessed something in the lines of the first Iron Maiden albums, music era-wise. Hell, even their only release is on tape.

Freeways also have the definite Canadian rock vibe about them. Did I already mention the band is Canadian? The vocals on "New Drag City" remind me wildly of the vocals delivered by Jason from Cauldron on the latest Cauldron albums, I even had to go and check if he has anything to do with this band. The EP is somewhat relaxed, a bit like something you would put in your truck CD player and drive to, through a desert starry night. What is missing for me is some more raw energy, but maybe the mellower, softer, and also warmer guitar tone was what they had been going for. The band I can think of sound-wise while listening to this EP is Free, from the 1969-1970 Free period. Less catchy and mainstream than Free's big chorus songs and without the blues guitar. Perhaps, more of a mixture with some Blue Oyster Cult rawer guitar riffing. And as I said, they definitely possess the NWBHM vibe of the less popular bands.


 

Go dig yourself some loose rock'n'rolling and boogieing.

Check them here and support: https://heavychainsrecords.com/shop/tapes/freeways-cold-front/

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