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The Artist - The Vines The Song - Factory The Album - Highly Evolved |
There are a dozen direct
influences these guys do right to - and for. But somehow they convey
that these sounds and expressions are their own.
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The Vines' "Factory" produces a humorous mood in a silly but irresistible sing-along which pans to rockin', and its guitar solo makes one want too run up and around the walls and ceiling. Do not attempt to go to sleep at your bedtime with this CD, no matter how many mugs of warm milk you've had.
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The first two songs, if this tells what these rockers are about, give enough depth to feel safe enough in saying they could maybe go on to do anything. As the third song closes, I'm thinking they're hungry for it enough to be a lasting band. Listen as their "Sunshinin" is as Beatles as a song can get, yet it seems that this sound belongs to these most fortunate kids. Vocals, their backers, the notes and tempos, all of it. The way the song closes. And it sounds entirely natural, not like countless copy efforts by all the ones who imitated the Fab Four out of sincere flattery. Check, midway, at 1:37 in "Homesick" when the guitar is single-string struck, and the harmonizing voices mesh. How often do you get such precise, musical emotion from such earnest simplicity these days, from anyone, let alone their collegiate age?
"Get Free" lets it loose, lets it go. These Vines are potentially vintage, state of the art rock n roll, as good as anyone in their genre right now. There are a dozen direct influences these guys do right to - and for. But somehow they convey that these sounds and expressions are their own. "Country Yard" might be the coolest song this reviewer has heard since Garbage's Version 2.0 was released.
"In the Jungle" must be a blast to learn how to play guitar to. They tinker with the time and your balance in this one. "Mary Jane" is endearing, another Beatles' exponent, something that you'd play repeatedly if you're 19 and just found out your favorite girl turns out to have a crush on you! Where you stare out the through your window, becoming lost adrift in the perfect bliss of cushions of nothingness. "Ain't No Room" is a nice reminder-wink of Cheap Trick when they were on. The Vines closer, "1969: says, No, we're not done, this is gonna stay in your head awhile too, not verbatim, but in effect. The Vines have a handle on the mechanics of the melody. Cant wait to see how far they go with their uncommonly raw talent.
-Moragn Field