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Sounds like:
The Hold Steady,
Gaslight Anthem,
The Soft Pack
Why do we like this?
Per my most recent Friday Five, I really like '70s music. Per virtually 95% of the music I have reviewed for Indie Shuffle, I clearly dig elemental rock 'n' roll. So really, it's not great surprise that I am loving "Electric Fever," the newest single from Philadelphia band Free Energy, off their forthcoming album Love Sign.
The band professes to embrace the "cheesy" influences so often dismissed by today's (sometimes) navel gazing indie rock bands, and "Electric Fever" is a perfect example of just how infectious, and catchy, this style of music can be. Are those Thin Lizzy-esque twin guitar lines I hear? A back beat perfect for fist pumping? A cowbell?! You bet. This is the feel-good, anthemic rock music so often dismissed for being "easy" or "simple" -- but that doesn't mean it isn't effective, or interesting, or infectious.
As lead singer Paul Spranger's said in a recent interview, "I think given enough time, you look back [at this music] and go, "˜Holy shit, this stuff has a lot of truth in it.'"
The band professes to embrace the "cheesy" influences so often dismissed by today's (sometimes) navel gazing indie rock bands, and "Electric Fever" is a perfect example of just how infectious, and catchy, this style of music can be. Are those Thin Lizzy-esque twin guitar lines I hear? A back beat perfect for fist pumping? A cowbell?! You bet. This is the feel-good, anthemic rock music so often dismissed for being "easy" or "simple" -- but that doesn't mean it isn't effective, or interesting, or infectious.
As lead singer Paul Spranger's said in a recent interview, "I think given enough time, you look back [at this music] and go, "˜Holy shit, this stuff has a lot of truth in it.'"
Streaming source:
http://soundcloud.com/freeenergymusic/electric-fever
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