IRON TONGUE - The Dogs Have Barked, The Birds Have Flown

Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Stoner/Desertrock | Heft: Jahrgang 2013, eclipsed Nr. 151 / 6-2013 | VÖ-Jahr: 2013 | Wertung: 8/10 | Label: Neurot | Autor: CA


Iron Tongue come from Arkansas, but are only partly or in homeopathic doses a Southernrock band. Their debut album "The Dogs Have Barked, The Birds Have Flown" is closer to acts like Grand Funk Railroad or Deep Purple than to collectives like Lynyrd Skynyrd. The epic opener "Ever After" has a good portion of atmosphere, but then gradually increases to a collapse. Singer Chris 'CT' Terry has played a big part in this dramatic escalation. "Witchery" features a hard rock riff that discreetly uses a Uriah heep classic from the seventies. "Moon Unit" is the only track with recognizable blues rock borrowings. Otherwise there are a lot of Seventies Moods, Psych-, Stoner- and Doomrock on the ears. How a huge monster like "Lioness" emerges from a bass groove is phenomenal. And how "7 Days" grows into a brute horror shocker, impressive. At the end Iron Tongue come up with the semi-punk "Said'n'Done" and underline once more that they can always be good for a surprise.

Top Track: Ever After

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