Sometimes
there are albums out there that have been produced to within an inch
of their lives.
No chord
change is left unpolished, no vocal is as it originally sounded, and
every single trick that a sound engineer can pull out of the bag is
used two whip the music into shape.
Then even
with all that additional help it still sounds crap.
Then like
a bratty kid sticking two fingers up to the world there's the rough
demo recordings that have maybe once said hello to a guy that knew
someone that had a neighbour who worked in a recording studio for a
day as part of a back to work scheme, and yet for all the recording
shortcomings the songs shine.
There's a
vibrancy that can't be held in check and you can hear that the
material is just waiting to get a sniff at some real production
values to take it from great to jaw droppingly awesome.
And
that's exactly what we have with the Rank Berry demo recordings.
With
their influences to the fore this Glasgow band sound like the bastard
offspring of The Black Crowes and Guns and Roses who have been raised
on a diet of The Faces and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
There's
no pretence that they are anything other than what they are.
No airs
or graces, just solid rocking with classic riffs and a vocal
performance that some of the bigger more established acts of the
genre would sell their souls to have coming from the mouth of their
front-man.
With
these eight tracks already nailed down, albeit roughly, it is
probably time that they pooled the cash together and gave the
material the production that it deserves.
I suspect
that once they do that and shop the recordings around then it wont be
long until a label bites at them, and bites hard.
I've yet
to see a band in Glasgow of a similar style that can touch them live.
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