Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Best of 2012


9) Eagle Twin - The Feather Tipped The Serpent's Scale

You can look at your guitar amplifier as a tool. You can look at it as a means to an end, a fancy piece of equipment that expresses exactly what you tell it to express. You can also look at your amplifier in awe, suggesting a riff and then waiting for it to spit back raw sludge, razor blades, and acid. I wouldn't say many bands worship their amplifiers, in fact I'd go as far as calling amplifier worship a very small genre of doped up, filthy scoundrels. This is how I see Eagle Twin. Their music isn't the most intricately composed or thought provoking. But they wouldn't want those things. They want crushing tone accompanied by a whiskey soaked, lurching message and they want for you to sit back and worship as they obviously did while recording this. I have no problem with that.

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