This Damn Town/The Guilty Hearts--split 7"
Sonico 2005
What do you get when you pair one of the most impressively pedigreed bands in garagedom with the snarlingest of the emerging snarlers? Why, this exciting new split 7" from This Damn Town and the Guilty Hearts, that's what. Expect no mercy from these two bands as they wear you out over the course of a combined four tracks. From front to back, you're getting the real deal all the way.
This Damn Town set the table with "Love Sick & Stupid." With its soaring choruses, this one is sure to click easiest with those uninitiated in this genre of music. A swagger injected bridge gives this cut an attitude boost usual suspects will appreciate, too. Then, there's "Something Bad." This one is just about as nasty, pouty, and raunchy as it gets--a damn near perfect rock n' roll song during a time when such epiphanies are few and far between. As killer as their side is, This Damn Town have one thing going stylistically on this disc that may turn off hardline fans of the form--the double tracked and smoothly screamed vocals utilized here bear an uncanny resemblence at points to those of the Offspring. Fans of Blacktop and A Feast Of Snakes expecting horrible, over processed pop punk out of Alex Cuervo can breathe a sigh of relief, but the vocal parallel is there.
Next up are the Guilty Hearts, first with "I Learned My Lesson." Mean as hell blues-based garage punk, this one should go over big with Revelators and Oblivians devotees. Closing out the whole shebang is their best offering "Seven Days Seven Ways." Coming off as a hyped-on-hateful marriage of the the Bassholes and Gun Club, this one has enough dark energy to chill the blackest of hearts.
If the rawer, bluesier end of garage is your thing, This Damn Town and the Guilty Hearts are going to shake your world with this record. Very powerful stuff and an incredibly complimentary pairing that doesn't leave any carbon copy bad taste in your mouth. Don't let anything stop you from laying ears on this one--highly recommended.
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