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Rock
Release Date: 10/25/2005
With its cover art cunningly distressed to look like a ratty old bargain-bin find -- complete with price tag and deliberately dated cover art and typography! -- the debut album by
Maylene & the Sons of Disaster makes its stylistic intentions clear. The new band by former
Underoath singer
Dallas Taylor pays fealty to the swaggering
cock rock bands that played the underbills beneath
Peter Frampton and
Bad Company all across the hockey arenas of America in the mid-'70s. Think of a new generation version of
the Black Crowes, but where their Georgia brethren went all out and tried to become a carbon copy of vintage
Faces and
Humble Pie records, down to
Chris Robinson adopting the fashion sense of a circa 1972
rock dandy,
Maylene & the Sons of Disaster don't commit to the sound all the day. Heavy
Southern rock riffs and an admirably loose 'n' sloppy rhythm section that favors choogling tempos just a hair slower than the average
post-hardcore band take
Maylene & the Sons of Disaster about halfway to their stylistic ideal, but
Taylor still sings everything in a guttural sore throat bark like he still has
Underoath grinding away behind him, and the production still compresses everything into an indistinct roar like it's just another
metalcore record, lacking the space that '70s
rock production favored. The results are a bizarre melding that don't really work: imagine
Hunky Dory-era
Bowie in front of an early
Sun Records session to comprehend the oddness of the generational culture clash on display here.
~Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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Joey
from Birmingham, AL
BEST CD EVER
Ive had this album for quite a while and it hasnt come out of my cd player since i got it. Dallas taylor, former lead singer of Underoath (when they were good), makes this band absolutley amazing. BUY IT!!
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