Growlers - What Heights?

Rip Info

Artist: Growlers
Album Title: What Heights?
Record Label:
Rip Date: 2009-07-01
Catalog Number:
Genre: Rock
Year: 2009
Source: CD
Encoder: Lame 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
Quality: 207 kbps avg / 44100 / Joint Stereo

Track List

01 Uhmurika 1:35
02 Lap Dance 2:08
03 All But The Bones 2:33
04 Smashed 2:35
05 Crawl 3:07
06 Ground Up 5:31
07 Blue Ribbon Baby 5:34
08 Ambulance Ride 3:07
09 Unholy Ends 2:44
10 Oil Fire 4:25
11 Thirteen Story Fall 0:48
12 Five Weeks 5:44
13 The Likes 3:48
00:43:39
67 megs

Rip Notes

reviews:
Performer Magazine, June 09
It's often difficult for artists to break out of their comfort zone and develop
new material that "doesn't sound like us." Sliding back into established and
successful patterns like a late-Saturday drunken booty text message can seem
unavoidable. Pushing forward is tough enough, but then you have Growlers, the
slamming alter-ego rock mutation of Boston's punky-dub establishment Destroy
Babylon. They don't just stretch boundaries, they blast apart an already mighty
Voltron and reform into a Death Star with their debut, What Heights?

After a boiling bass rumble from Chris Moran and a scratchy riffing assault
intro that conjures a glitch-less Trent Reznor, Growlers erupts from its ripe
Jamaican Babylon buds with Marc Beaudette's Gatling-tom assault on "Lap Dance"
and announces: "No more kisses/It's just business." The now-established
theatrical vibe, all blink-less captivating direction without Hollywood cheese
persists throughout the record. "Lap Dance" flows straight into guitarist John
Beaudette's trumpet-commanded battle march "All But The Bones" as the act pushes
on. Guitarist Rob Carmichael's voice has a pureness to it that insists on
empathy and breathes life into the story of the verses. While remaining
stunningly solid, his gentle inflections and well-placed imperfections expose
the passion underneath the power. Visions of Angel Dust era Faith No More in all
their sonic glory and bittersweet nostalgia flicker across the Growlers big
screen

The record benefits from tight production permitting effortless identification
of each part, but still enables a total package that synergizes a sum greater
than its parts. Tasty squelches, swoops and delay top the aural cake like
pinches of sprinkles, not carelessly slathered icing

"Crawl," can almost be called dub with its accented hi-hat and bass
undercurrent, but it patiently transforms as foglight vocals slice through haze
and ambitious drums leave the pattern behind to crescendo into an avalanche of
time-keeping fills. This reluctance to follow predictable patterns is a pattern
that serves the band well throughout the album

After some spacey interludes and the Spanish guitar excursion of "Blue Ribbon,"
Growlers finish strong and serious with the sad, multi-voice harmonies of "Five
Weeks." "Do you ever change?" Carmichael cries and begs after climactic
shredding, leading the acoustic strumming and tinkling piano-backed lament into
the lap steel confessional "The Likes." Despite the diamond-crunching pressure
at the top of What Heights?, the dual-finale proves even more engaging as the
line "I've never seen a fire burn, but not consume" testifies

Nate Leskovic

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