The Black Belles Debut Record
http://soundcloud.com/consequenceofsound/sets/the-black-belles-the-black/s-CiuIQ
Its here. Above is a link to listen to the girls new record on soundcloud.
It’s a comprehensive album. Starting with “Leave you with a letter” which is a sing-songy type of affair and opens the road into the album, which itself is a queer affair if ever I’ve heard one.
The guitars are simultaneously muddy, dirty, sludgy and as if they are being played in an abandoned funhouse. At night. Underwater. The vocals are warbled, wrangled, hysterical, growled and sometimes sung. The production goes from big and clear to cloudy and scruffy accordingly. Surf, goth, rockabilly, as hard as QOTSA.
The songs are listenable, more as a whole album than individually ( I think that is the desired effect for a band like this) but have a fire in the belly and are rebellious yet keep something of the lady about them.
The Black Belles have expanded in every area on their sound from when we first heard of them with “Lies” a couple of years ago. Solo’s are stronger, drumming is bolder and the overall sound is more collected and.. Third Man. “Pushing Up Daisies” could be an extra track on the Dead Weather’s “Sea of Cowards”.
The Black Belles does have the Jack White fingerprint, but these girls came with their own style and they have definitely maintained it and the only thing that Jack has done is written over their pencil outlines in big black marker. (It’s everything else he did outside the music that has me scratching my head) A really good rock album.
http://soundcloud.com/consequenceofsound/sets/the-black-belles-the-black/s-CiuIQ
The Black Belles - The Black Belles 7/10
Stand out tracks: Leave You With a Letter, The Tease, Pushing Up Daisies
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