October 5, 2011
The Daily Choice: Burnt Ones - Bury Me In Smoke
Burnt Ones are very quickly becoming my favorite new band in San Francisco. Know this now: they sound like T-Rex - big, ballsy, beautiful T-Rex but injected with a penchant for even harder rocking and noisier layers. Know that and then forget it. Just dive in and let the throbbing guitars and intertwining melodies wash over you and pull the corners of your mouth up in to a big, fat, shit-eating grin. I lost control of the volume knob at my family-oriented coffee shop early last week and for a brief, moment “Bury Me In Smoke” pounded over the nervy line of people, and I stared out wide eyed in shock waiting for someone to start complaining. It never happened. This is music to be played loudly for a crowd of people trying to wake up or get primed for a night of drinking and fucking and doing illegal drugs in bathroom stalls. This is rock ‘n’ roll people. Now get to listening.
Burnt Ones album Black Teeth & Golden Tongues can be purchased here.
Burnt Ones will be melting faces with the new three-piece version of The Mallard at The Knockout October 17th.
on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 at 9:00 am
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October 5th, 2011 11:18
Noisy layers yes. Big ballsy, T-Rex? Not a chance. I was burt out on the oversaturated reverb that appears on every damn song. The problem with the T-Rex comparison is that The Burnt Ones arrangements and compositions are so much more juvenile and simplistic. Marc Bolan was a rippin’ guitar player. Of the 7 or 8 songs I listened to from the Burnt Ones I couldn’t find a single guitar solo. Just a bunch of strumming with too much damn reverb and pretty much the same old bashing drum beat on every song. Thier sound reminds me more of The Ravonettes then T-Rex. Was the comparison to T-Rex as simple as they have a song called ‘Gonna Listen to T-Rex (All Night Long)’?