加利福尼亚新军,首作,风格还是有点偏英式,大范围明亮刺耳的失真吉他,浓重贝司音墙,曲式有点后摇化的勾勒,凸锐激励的唱腔,融合了独立,英伦、后朋等风格。慢热型,听着听着倒有点出味道~
The Continental Divide is the debut album for Downtown LA-based War Tapes, who released their eponymous EP in Oct. 2008.
- Right away they sound like a cross between Alkaline Trio and She Wants Revenge, fast, guitar heavy rock with deep, masculine vocals. They label their sound as “heart-quaking doom-pop,” which is a fairly apt description.
- “The Night Unfolds” is the album’s strongest track and begins the album with a flurry of guitar chords, a screech of keyboard and punk-rock-speed drumming. The following track, “Dreaming of You,” slows it down, adds some female backing vocals and seems to be winking in The Cure’s direction.
- They definitely have a dark side, not only in their black-clad appearance, but also in the track “She Lied,” singer Neil Popkin laments, “All day long I sit and communicate with the dead corpse that I call my girlfriend.”