An album release from Captain Blitz comes through with a quirky and almost animated underbelly but hits these Indie, classic, and even folk-rock tonalities with lyrics that make perfect sense, come through descriptive, and listening to the album as a whole gives you a great sense of the atmosphere it gives off.
The Heart Attack & Coffee album has some outstanding guitar tones throughout it. I feel like this is one of the most robust aspects of the record. It comes through as colorful and each track changes up slightly in terms of that tone giving each song its own Vibe.
Another thing that really grabs you is the grooves the songs provide. They have some great grooves. A lot of these songs come through very danceable and with loads of musical and vocal hooks in them which I've missed in any kind of music as of late.
I feel like there are a lot of great choruses out there and that's always a sign of a great single or a great track, but I miss musical hooks.
This record has great guitar hugs all over it and some of them are as memorable as the choruses themselves.
I do love the lyrical approach because at times they're very straightforward and they can get you thinking. I'm always a fan of any kind of music that makes you think or feel something, and this record definitely makes you think a lot because a lot of these songs come from inner thought and those thoughts are just being let out there.
Again, this has a lot of color to it so it feels good to listen to and you can dance to it but, it also has little bouts of edginess in there as well, but these are more in the form of sort of alternative pop undertones at times.
This is a very guitar and vocal-driven record and although the percussion changes and varies, the way that the singing and guitars are performed is everything on this release.
The elements that give the track character and believe me, this record has a lot of character and personality attached to it right from the get-go.
The first track alone sets the tone for what you can expect however, having said that, if you only listen to one or two songs from this record you may get an idea of what the record can sound like but will not get the full spectrum of what the album has to offer as a whole.
As I said right from the start, this is a record you should listen to from beginning to end. This really gives you a sense of that character and lets you get engulfed in the soundscape of everything really well.
The way this record was recorded and the mix of it as well are both outstanding simply because there's this sort of vintage tonality to it that's captured, and this gives the whole album a particular aesthetic which is something you really end up loving.
That aesthetic is a staple for this record.
The bass guitar tones, the vocals, the percussion, everything is recorded with this classic, old-school feel where nothing is super wet. Everything is dry and a little bit up close and personal and this is a classic sort of 1970s sound and tone.
I certainly feel like this was done on purpose and the project is meant to sound exactly the way it does.
This is the brainchild of Freddy Jaschinsky who, as far as I can tell, rights pretty much everything and performs a lot of it as well.
He does perform live as a solo act often but also has a jam band I think, when the players are available to him to perform live shows.
So, you see, all of this music came from one place. This is part of why I feel like the record sounds the way it does. It was a vision that came to fruition and, I feel like that's very impressive in terms of seeing something through.
This was an outstanding record that beckons that classic rock, rhythm and blues, and folk soundscape and nails all of those things perfectly.
Again, listen to this whole record and it serves as a great little escape.
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