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Ladyhawk - Shots
| Prefixmag | | Ladyhawk's Duffy Driedeger denies the existence of any Vancouver collective hinging about the mighty Black Mountain. While members of each band have appeared on the others' albums, and despite similar influences, Driedeger maintains that there's a lack of collaboration. But it's hard to deny that a parallel runs through the viscous riffs, extended breakdowns, and classic-rock eugenics. Sophomore effort Shots does a lot to congeal its influences into a distinct resonance, but it also sounds a lot more like the work of Black Mountain....full text |
| | Pitchforkmedia | | "I Don't Always Know What You're Saying", the first track on Ladyhawk's sophomore album, Shots, opens with a pot-banging guitar riff and a cascading, swooping noise whose origins-- effected guitar? synth?-- are indeterminate. Fitting with its title, the song offers what are possibly the only moments of uncertainty, sonically or emotionally, on the entire album. Shots, befitting Ladyhawk's reputation, is no-frills guitar rock that takes clear stances on relationships (confusing!) and guitars (good!). Still, it's hard to put the Vancouver quartet in a box: Ladyhawk look the part of brawny Americana rock revivalists, but at no point does Shots fulfill even the most liberal stylistic requirements of folk or blues or country....full text |
| | Allmusic | | A further sign of a new generation in rock & roll -- that a group like Ladyhawk, dedicated to pursuing that kind of music beloved of fans of things indie rock in a proto-grunge sense, can call a song "Corpse Paint" and likely have the reference understood even by people who aren't normally dressed like members of Emperor or Burzum. (Never hurts, though.) This said, Shots is the kind of earnest record that is enjoyable enough on its own merits without standing out as something new -- it's worth a listen well enough if your artistic lodestone is fixated on early-'90s radio rock and the band does a good job at adding some sprightliness to a lumbering aesthetic, but that's about all that can be said. Still, the best moments are enjoyable enough....full text |
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