Beartooth are American melodic hardcore band and this is their fourth album. This new opus contains twelve songs and I had mixed feelings about it prior to listening. Why? Because, as a kid I came from that street punk more oi oriented roots of hardcore and loved my hardcore youth crew and punk oriented with lots of punk and little metal in it. Then, in the middle of the nineties came that so called new school hardcore bands with all that chugga chugga metal oriented riffs and as I also listened to metal in my earlier youth, I embraced bands like Strife, Snapcase, Earth Crisis and similar. Then came that more modern style of hardcore like Beartooth play. But, I really love this band. They play a healthy dose between rough modern hardcore with mosh and metal riffing, but plain old punk rock serves as a platform on which they build their song structures and they do it great. I love the mix between rough and screaming vocals and fantastic melodic vocals. Songs like Devastation, The Past Is Dead and Phantom Pain are my personal favorites, but upon every listening I find something else that makes me smile with satisfaction. Great record indeed!
The latest release in the Spacebomb House Band collaboration series brings Richmond-based artist Deau Eyes into the fold with a cover of “Send Me No Roses,” a song first recorded in 1965 by Wanda Jackson and made famous by Tammy Wynette two years later.
“It’s unabashedly a straight up nod to Sly Stone’s ‘Just Like A Baby,'” says Spacebomb House Band’s bassist and producer Cameron Ralston about the new version. “Kind of a spaced cowboy thing where we took this classic old country song and just kinda stoned it out a little, dirtied it up a bit. Very un-precious, raw, and off the cuff. Minimalist in instrumentation yet maximalist in sound and groove.”
Deau Eyes is Ali Thibodeau, a Richmond, Virginia-born and raised singer and songwriter. Her debut album Let It Leave was recorded at Trace Horse Studios in Nashville with longtime friends and co-producers Jacob Blizard and Collin Pastore, whose creative efforts show up on records by Lucy Dacus and illuminati hotties, among others.
Thibodeau says of the collaboration: “Right around the time Spacebomb sent me this studio magic, I’d received flowers from an ex I’d been longing over for four years. It was as if the ghost of Tammy Wynette was giving me a little nudge to feel my feelings in order to move forward. Classic country music has always felt like home to me and being asked to perform a new take on it with these guys is a real honor.”
This new release follows last month’s release of the Erin Rae and Spacebomb House Band collaboration, “Back in Baby’s Arms,” which you can listen to here.
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