Sally Crewe & the Sudden Moves
(8-Track Mind)
After three well-received full-lengths (the last one being 2009's Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You) transplanted Texan (originally from the U.K.) Crewe and her band of thieves (which includes ex-GBV Doug Gillard on guitar, George Duron on drums and Matt Babb on bass...Gillard also co-wrote 4 of the 5 songs) offer up 5 winning songs here on what may be her finest release yet. In this day and age of bands relying on gimmicks to gain credibility, well, this isn't gimmicky stuff here, Crewe/Gillard get by simply on strong songs (the way it should be).
Opening cut "Make Me Stay" opens with a circular guitar riff that turns chunky about a minute in and is backed by a solid, driving rhythm section and some surprising backing vocals. I still think my favorite part is when Crewe says "Settle down" but with that Brit accent settle becomes set-uhl (gets me every time). "Punk Rock Kid" has more of the jagged guitar, lots of whoah-oh-oh's until a middle part kicks in and there's some (gulp....ready for it) reggae-ish guitar that totally works! "Living Like You've Got Forever" is the finest cut here, all four minutes of it with again the mixture of sweet n' sour guitar, dreamy backing vocals and a rhythm section that seem to punctuate everything with some extra oomph. Of the final two tracks, "Back Again" slows it down and "It's Only Love" grinds it out.
I'd call this stuff power pop if I didn't think I'd receive some nasty hate mail so we'll just say all rock fans take note.
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