FIEND WITHOUT A FACE
Fiend Without a Face (Shut Eye Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This is really cool. It's kind of a cross between a collection of country and punk and spacey surf music and old timey barroom (like 1800's honky-tonk barroom) instrumentals and then some songs with vocals that sound a lot like an early Dr. No/Bad Brains. Some of the songs don't even sound like they're done by the same band, there's so much diversity on this disc. Luckily, though, the band can obviously handle all these different styles just fine, and nothing here sounds like it was put here just to make a point about diversity. My favorite material here, though, are definitely the instrumentals, and I think that's where this guitar/drums/slap bass band shows off its talents best.

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© 2004 - Holly Day