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After 3 mind bending singles, New Haven, CT's premier rockers the ESTROGEN
HIGHS are back to give us another upbeat, jangley dose of primitive rock
n roll. As the singles can attest, with the ESTROGEN HIGHS, the tunes
are never to calculated. The playing is always loose, the ideas are always
solid, and the end result is a pretty warbled, sloppy mess that comes
together into something raw and unique. And I don't think that happens
by accident. Their musical blue print definitely centers around the less
is more aestetic, and they drill the point home with with overly catchy
riffs bashed intoxicatingly into poppy garage precision. After listening
to 'Tell It To Them' you definitely get the sense that each of the four
members of the band have a pretty similar idea of what rock n roll is.
There are probably more than a few overlapping Yardbirds, Gories, Cheater
Slicks, Seeds, Real Kids, Kinks and Stones records in their collections
giving them enough of an idyllic musical arsenal to really dish the goods.
And dish the goods they do. On 'Tell It To Them', the ESTROGEN HIGHS take
that less is more aesthetic and keep it honest, real and catchy by letting
the music hammer out their blurry, scuzzy message. The laid back vox,
give the singer an almost overly relaxed (read: stoned) drawl on the album
where the complacent, yet somber vocals mesh really well with the plunky,
plucky guitar riffs that pop out of the mix. And if anything were to be
a signature for the ESTROGEN HIGHS, it would be those plunky rhythm tracks
that really add dimension to the songs ands act as a really forceful,
hook-ey compound that make their fuzzy, hook ridden garage nuggets really
stick. During a time when their definitely seems to be a lull in underground
garage bands, it's nice to know that there are still a few killer bands
that more than adequately fill the gap.
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