When it comes down to it, I cannot help but feel as though we're living in a true golden age for rock music. Throughout the global network that makes up the underground as we know it today, there are legions upon legions of acts out there with tons of promise, talent, and tenacity to bring everything together in such a form that feels downright awe-inspiring from top to bottom. You simply need to look in the right spot and you'll be suddenly met with a creation you could not have anticipated in the slightest. I have experienced that many a time, and it was tonight that Rattlesquad brought that euphoria back to me in full force.
Given the dense and seemingly impenetrable nature of the underground, it's only natural that plenty of offerings find themselves lost to the depths for one reason or another even if they are certifiable works of raw genius. That's a simple and big reason why it's so important that we continuously dig to find what's in the rough for we never know what we will find even if it's years down the line when. It hasn't even been a year since Rattlesquad put out their debut album, "1233", and I'm quite frankly very annoyed that it has taken me this long to listen to this album. Overflowing with plenty of fuzzy, blues-infused rock with more than little bit of a stoner edge, "1233" is a damn good time that is not something to set aside for any reason. It's an incredibly straightforward but no less than captivating performance that sees a large swathe of what the style has always been known best for distilled and focused in on to spectacular effect across eight intoxicating tracks that offer us a magnificent glimpse into what Rattlesquad is already capable of throwing down. Where plenty of bands seek to bring riffs to the table yet are hardly able to do so, "1233" sees everything come together from the melodies to the attitude to the very soul of Rattlesquad ensuring that this is not a record that was destined to be a one-note creation with no real density to its contents. Rather, "1233" quickly grows itself into a euphoric exploration of what rock has always been with a modern sleek and reverence to tie it all together into such a glorious package that one cannot help but be drawn into the splendor that Rattlesquad is clearly dealing in.
Far from reinventing the genre, but, instead, diving into the many of the tropes that got us to where we are today, Rattlesquard's obvious love for the genre has led them to crafting a real love letter to much of what the genre has always been with the record as a whole offering us a whole array of fear, hope, determination, anger, hate, and love in a form that only proper rock and roll can deliver. "1233" is many things, but it's a tremendous experience and a damn good time above all else.
LISTEN to "1233" on Bandcamp here.
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