You hear a lot of artists talking about making their music more organic or natural. A great example of this was the last Foo Fighters album. Grohl and the boys literally went into his garage and without any fancy tricks recorded one of the best album of their career. Another form of organic music would be Bon Scott’s on stage presence. If you listen to “The Jack” live from back in the day you will hear a vocalist that is just doing what come naturally to him. He is feeding off the crowd and the music simultaneously. It isn’t about the sheet music or the tuning; it becomes about the experience the music creates.
The reason I lead in with this is because Spain’s hard rockers 77 (Seventy-Seven) have found a way to combine both of those natural or organic moments on their new album Decibels. The band is rooted in the 70s style of rock when things were free to be explored and not over analyzed by supposed experts. With this natural progression of their music they managed to come to a place of modern aggression and song writing techniques without letting the negativity of the current music scene corrupt their art.
That description might come across as a little artsy, but you will only think that until you realize this album needs to be played on 11 to be enjoyed. 77 through this process tuned out the outside world by turning their instruments up as loud as they would go and blasting the negativity out of the room.
Listenable Records gave 77 a license to explore the organic side of hard rock and they delivered one of the loudest and proudest albums since early AC/DC.
The Valeta Brothers founded the band and appear to have a “I don’t care what you think, just listen to my fuckin music” attitude. Critiquing an album that obviously is written with the music in mind and not the industry is a true pleasure. I’m not going to hurt anyone’s feeling because they don’t care what I think. If I like it fine; If I don’t, piss off! That’s both the 70s and hard rock the way it should be.
By the way… I like it!
Metal on,
Martell
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