Lost Dawn - Fever
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| Lost Dawn - Fever |
Release Date: 5th February 2016
For the first time since David
Bowie ascended from this earthly realm, I am sitting to review a band producing
new music for our ears in 2016. This feels slightly odd, like going to
someone's house for a wake after you've just watched them being lowered in to
the ground, so I've had to choose my prey carefully. As luck would have it,
Falmouth's rising stars and LWM favourites LWM have produced a mini-album,
'Fever', to get me back in to the world of the active listener so with cautious
optimism I'm pressing play...
Affairs get under way with
'Electrify', a ramshackle garage-pop romp that comes in at just over two and a
half minutes with the sole purpose of getting feet tapping, hips shaking and
heads bobbing. 'Naked Lunch' is up next with a throbbing, Stages Of Dan bass
line and distorted vocals that could have been sung any time from the early 70s
to today as long as you know the band have been absorbing Iggy, Dylan, Redd
Kross and the Strokes. Whichever way you slice these guys they bleed effortless
cool which is nothing to be sniffed at and when they hit full stride they are
as slick as Bowie's hair during the 80s.
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| Lost Dawn - no mugs |
The centre point of this album
(technically a long EP but I've decided to let that one pass) is the near six
minute title track, 'Fever'. A hip snakingly tropical melody smokes in under
the door and weaves it's way in through the party without anyone noticing
before grabbing you by the waist and dry humping you from behind with some
chunky guitars and a cheeky little jazz break that is reminiscent of the Doors.
'Construction Rock' was born on the highways of America with road trip riffs
and an air of wanderlust that craves wind in the hair and a smile full of dead
fly remains. The Lynyrd Skynyrd ending gives way to 'Rasputin' which mixes the
bands staple psyche rock sound with some more accessible mainstream pop-rock
chorus work which hints at the kind of music we can expect in the future from
these guys. 'Aguila' closes things up and you might want to roll a fat one and
sit down for this as it's nearly ten (yes, 10) minute long and is a real slow
jam of pure indulgence that would be the perfect soundtrack to a sunrise as seen
after staying up all night with your best friends and comrades. To me, this is very much a bridging record
between their successful 2015 and what's to come in 2016 and beyond. Bowie
would approve of the creativity and freedom on this record so I'm making it my
soundtrack to the mourning process, feel free to do the same.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/lostdawnrock/
Watch The Video for 'Construction Rock': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZTMyPR0rTA
Live Dates:
5th February - Album Launch @ Woodlane Social Club, Falmouth
w/The Holiday + Ghosts + Antithesis Of Man
9th February - Birthdays, London
12th February - Roll For The Soul, Bristol