What is it with kids these days and making obnoxious noises with their guitars? Well there's plenty of it on this up-and-coming band's debut album, The Eternal.
The album opens with "Sacred Trickster." I don't remember anything about it other than the fact that the female vocalist, Kim Deal, has the most godawful voice I have ever heard. The next song, "Anti-Orgasm" isn't much better, the male vocalist, Thurston Howell the Third, sounding beyond bored in his delivery. Like, he tries to sing like Bob Dylan. It is fucking mind boggling for me, hearing someone actually wanting to sound like Bob Dylan. Anyway, the "uh uh uh uh uh uh uh"s were fun, but the rest is pretty much anti-fun.
The best moments of the album are when there is no singing at all. The intros, outros and little midsong instrumental interludes are the only real enjoyable parts of this album.
Actually, I lied, there are three legitimately good songs. "Antenna," "Walkin' Blue," and "What We Know" find the band actually singing melodies instead of just kind of yelling over guitar noise.
Overall, the band shows some potential. If they develop their songwriting a bit instead of just trying to focus on sounding like shit, they could be a very good band.
Score:
4.4
PS. it was gonna be 3.4 but, c'mon, it's their first album, I should be going easy on them, right?
Sample: live performance of the song "Massage The History"
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