Pearls and Brass: The Indian Tower
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Pearls
Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times: "Pearls and Brass, a young band from Nazareth, Pa., suggests an old, doomy way of looking at the world: 1970's biker metal, low-pitched and greasy and repetitive. The music makes you think of Led Zeppelin, Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath. But they have a lived-in sound, and an effect like high-voltage meditation. They make the simple rather complicated, and the complicated rather simple. What makes this band so good -- on its second album, 'The Indian Tower' (Drag City) … is that its musicians have thought a lot about song structure, but even more about groove. The concentration on that groove by its three members -- Randy Huth on guitar, Joel Winter on bass and Josh Martin on drums -- means that the band can get rhythmically tricky in its theme riffs, swinging asymmetrically between two- and three-beat patterns, but you don't much notice it. The vocal lines sail right through these rhythmic shifts, the music's heavy bottom end never alters, and it all feels like one unfolding pattern. … [T]his is cheap, effective hypnosis; it's also music that feels extremely good" (3/14/06).
Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times: "Pearls and Brass, a young band from Nazareth, Pa., suggests an old, doomy way of looking at the world: 1970's biker metal, low-pitched and greasy and repetitive. The music makes you think of Led Zeppelin, Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath. But they have a lived-in sound, and an effect like high-voltage meditation. They make the simple rather complicated, and the complicated rather simple. What makes this band so good -- on its second album, 'The Indian Tower' (Drag City) … is that its musicians have thought a lot about song structure, but even more about groove. The concentration on that groove by its three members -- Randy Huth on guitar, Joel Winter on bass and Josh Martin on drums -- means that the band can get rhythmically tricky in its theme riffs, swinging asymmetrically between two- and three-beat patterns, but you don't much notice it. The vocal lines sail right through these rhythmic shifts, the music's heavy bottom end never alters, and it all feels like one unfolding pattern. … [T]his is cheap, effective hypnosis; it's also music that feels extremely good" (3/14/06).
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