Real Life Rock & Roll Band / Hollerin' The Spirit
Album: Hollerin' The Spirit   Collection:General
Artist:Real Life Rock & Roll Band   Added:Feb 2020
Label:Geomancy  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2020-02-19 Pull Date: 2020-07-15
Week Ending: Mar 1 Feb 23
Airplays: 1 3

Recent Airplay
1. May 07, 2020: Stranded at Settembrini's
Cloud House of the Sundog
4. Feb 20, 2020: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants
EarthBound Phantoms Not Numerous
2. Feb 27, 2020: Being as an ocean
EarthBound Phantoms Not Numerous
5. Feb 20, 2020: Being as an ocean
Singing the Freedom of Utopic Space
3. Feb 22, 2020: Being as an ocean
Second Throne of the Nation's Millenium
6. Feb 19, 2020: Brownian Motion
EarthBound Phantoms Not Numerous

Album Review
DJ Away
Reviewed 2020-02-12
LOCAL(ish)! Finally, the debut album from the rock & roll band of distinguished Bay Area (or formerly Bay) experimentalists Andrew Weathers, Blaine Todd, Aaron Oppenheim, and Scott Siler. Infinite desert rock riffs, emo extremes, heavily manipulated hallucinatory vocals. From Bandcamp: "The group applies minimalist process music techniques to country-tinged dual guitar riffs." Heady in several ways at once, vital, spirit-boosting. RIYL Lift to Experience, Horse Lords, Mdou Moctar, Henry Flynt, Steve Reich, The Appleseed Cast. All songs great, try starting with 2, 3, 5. No FCCs detected.

1. (9:12)—Long minor-key drone, before mid-tempo drone rock in 7/4. Vocals enter five minutes in.
2. *(5:36)—Mid-tempo lope. Synths. Sci-fi American Football zones. Gradual build, great solo. "Forgive yourself, move beyond."
3. *(9:17)—Fast, raucous, starts loud and heavy and rises from there. Long, fractured drone outro.
4. (6:30)—Terry Allen cover. Mid-tempo, minor-key crawl. The most laid-back song here.
5. *(10:32)—Mid-tempo, heavy, menacing. again in 7/4. Big finish, repeated shouting: "Rock & roll is alive!"

Track Listing
1. Cloud House of the Sundog   3. EarthBound Phantoms Not Numerous
2. Second Throne of the Nation's Millenium   4. There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California
  5. Singing the Freedom of Utopic Space