Mr. Thunder / What It Is
Album: What It Is   Collection:General
Artist:Mr. Thunder   Added:Feb 2010
Label:Self-Release  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2010-05-23 Pull Date: 2010-07-25

Album Review
Red West
Reviewed 2010-05-18
Outsider Christian rock, hint of rap. Jammy band with poor vocals and some unusual modulations. Tolerable in small doses. Perhaps therapeutic to create, it will not win many over to the dogma.

1. Wah on the guitar gives a vaguely funk feel. “Devil tries to steal my soul” is only easily decipherable lyric (and even then, sounds like "steal my joy").
2. slow rap beat, inchoate musical accompaniment low in mix, then random-notes fuzzy guitar solo.
3. repeating lo-fi riff with spoken-sung vocals. “Life on the Clean Track” is a miasma.
4.”So I’m gonna praise you lord. Y’all can praise with me” is the intro. Then comes crime-show surf guitar (as best as he can manage) with praise in an evil voice. (And he says “life on the clean track”, is the tracklisting off?)
5.Random synth, halting beatbox
6. Opens with wailing vocals that don’t quite match up with the backing beat/music. Very avant-garde, perhaps unintentionally.
+7.Happier sounding imitation of dub, eg lots of “I and I”. Evocative of mental illness.

Track Listing
1. Devil Tried To Steal My Soul   4. A Wise Man Song
2. Lord Our Burning Love   5. I Stand Firm
3. Life On The Clean Track   6. I Got More Love
  7. An Everlasting Thang