TWO TON BOA
Two Ton Boa (Kill Rock Stars)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Falling somewhere between cabaret burlesque and Alice in Chains grunge, Two Ton Boa's 5-song debut is a eerie combination of driving guitars and music boxes, powerful female vocals and near-chorale interludes. A good example of this dichotomy is in the last song on the album, "Have Mercy," where singer Sherry Fraser's voice rumbles low in the bass registers during most of the song, only to punctuate the chorus lines with high pitched howls that sound almost operatic. Lyrically, this evokes old school heavy metal epics, relying heavily on dark, poetic images and archaic language, which risks sounding corny at times, but the songs are put together musically well enough that the borderline mawkishness is kept at just that - borderline.

© 2001 - Holly Day