Aug 26
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Playing - Blitzen Trapper - Street Fighting Sun
Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing (2011)
Blitzen Trapper have said that with American Goldwing, the band has tried to evoke a true American nostalgia with the hard guitar rock and country picking of our younger years mixed with glimmers of our usual space-aging technology and pawn shop Casios Heavy guitar riffs and blasting drum fills live side-by-side with plucking banjos, wailing harmonicas and muddy slide guitars.
Those familiar with BT’s work will know that this is hardly a reinvention, they’ve basically been going for this aesthetic the whole time. They do deliver on increasing the hard guitars, but not so much on the plucking banjos. The result is that they’re starting to sound more and more like some kind of southern T. Rex — again, not really a huge departure from the past, though acoustic experiments have mostly fallen by the wayside. As always, there’s a touch of the Grateful Dead in here too: this is the second consecutive album with a reference to a ‘brokedown palace’. Very good piece of nostalgic/contemporary folk-rock all in all.
Highlights: Flectcher, Street Fighting Sun, American Goldwing
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Tracklist:
01-Blitzen Trapper - Might Find it Cheap
02-Blitzen Trapper - Fletcher
03-Blitzen Trapper - Love The Way You Walk Away
04-Blitzen Trapper - Your Crying Eyes
05-Blitzen Trapper - My Home Town
06-Blitzen Trapper - Girl In A Coat
07-Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing
08-Blitzen Trapper - Astronaut
09-Blitzen Trapper - Taking It Easy Too Long
10-Blitzen Trapper - Street Fighting Sun
11-Blitzen Trapper - Stranger In A Strange Land
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