While
How Down and “Cow Town” do rhyme, I always want to call this “Ho Down” because
that just seems so much more fitting for a “Cow Town”. As
far as cow towns go though, this really doesn’t sound the type of band that
they would produce. If nothing else can
be said about them, How Down just flat out rocks.
Between
Alkaline Trio, Shades Apart and that Blue Meanies organ sound, this starts off
strong and never really relents. There
is some Stone Temple Pilots in here, but also it could be a cross between Gin
Blossoms and Lemonheads. Moments of thrash get screamy and I am also
reminded of earlier Local H sounds.
Other
alliances closer to punk come out.
Liars Academy for one. Rise
Against for sure. Some Lucero, but not
too much. Hot Water Music, who tend to
go with Alkaline Trio any way. “Nimrod” era Green Day comes out as well. And then we also have that stripped down
Nirvana feel to it too.
In a
lot of ways this could just be described as a faster paced version of Alice in
Chains, sort of like “Over Now” or “Would”, in terms of their songs, but to
simplify it in any aspect would be a great disservice as this is just rock to
the ultimate stop.
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