artist: Radio Moscow
featured track: "The Stranger"
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"The Great Escape Of Leslie Magnafuzz" is RADIO MOSCOW third album for Alive Naturalsound Records. It is also a genuinely thrilling follow up to their previous releases (their self-titled debut was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys), brimming with toe curling Hendrixified guitar soloing, not to mention some seriously impressive blues guitar work!
Today’s “new is old philosophy” works well for Radio Moscow. In an era when The White Stripes and The Black Keys have become unlikely stars, Amy Winehouse (RIP) proved that real soul was where it’s at and youngsters are at last generally open to everything, here we have a band who are ploughing their very own corner of the field in time honoured fashion, unafraid of retrogressive accusations. The wah-and-phased-delirium of an opener ‘Little Eyes’ (which could have so easily graced Blue Cheer’s triumvirate third album Outsideinside) to the funky Grand Funk Railroad vibe of ‘Speedfreak’, the heavy UK blues-rock vibe of ‘Creepin’’ (a tune as good as Free at their best) and the amazing guitar driven rattlesnake raga that echoes Peter Green’s finest moments with Fleetwood Mac, all add up to a wildly pulsating affair, full of energy, passion and psychedelic electricity! |