Sleazegrinder
nailed this four-piece supagroup’s sound in his review of their
“Beautiful Night” EP—it’s bad guy rock gone good, and their
full-length debut confirms the fact that while the Brothers are
fighting on the side of the Light, they’re not above sinking in a few kidney
punches to get their message across. The Legion of Doom that is the
Burden Brothers is comprised of former Toadies howler Vaden
Todd Lewis with ex-Reverend Horton Heat/Izzy Stradlin skin beast
Taz Bentley and Casey Orr (Speedealer, Hellions,
and even GWAR, fer Chrissakes) on bass, and the din they make is
‘90s-style power pop cut from the same cloth as early STP,
Buckcherry and Toadies (natch), but salted and cured in a murky
Texas brine that gives the eleven tunes collected here a gritty bite, like a
pungent mouthful of rattlesnake jerky marinated in Old Crow. The riffs here
drive on righteous fuzz, especially “Beautiful Night” “Shadow,”
and “You’re So God Damned Beautiful,” which sounds like the
theme for prom night at an Arizona juvie hall—hamfisted and romantic at the
same time, which is less easy to pull off than it sounds. Wish the whole
record had the go-for-broke thrillkill urge of the opening half (Side One,
were this an LP proper), but those cuts pack enough firepower to get you
looking forward to the follow-up.
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Sleazegrinder
nailed this four-piece supagroup’s sound in his review of their
“Beautiful Night” EP—it’s bad guy rock gone good, and their
full-length debut confirms the fact that while the Brothers are
fighting on the side of the Light, they’re not above sinking in a few kidney
punches to get their message across. The Legion of Doom that is the
Burden Brothers is comprised of former Toadies howler Vaden
Todd Lewis with ex-Reverend Horton Heat/Izzy Stradlin skin beast
Taz Bentley and Casey Orr (Speedealer, Hellions,
and even GWAR, fer Chrissakes) on bass, and the din they make is
‘90s-style power pop cut from the same cloth as early STP,
Buckcherry and Toadies (natch), but salted and cured in a murky
Texas brine that gives the eleven tunes collected here a gritty bite, like a
pungent mouthful of rattlesnake jerky marinated in Old Crow. The riffs here
drive on righteous fuzz, especially “Beautiful Night” “Shadow,”
and “You’re So God Damned Beautiful,” which sounds like the
theme for prom night at an Arizona juvie hall—hamfisted and romantic at the
same time, which is less easy to pull off than it sounds. Wish the whole
record had the go-for-broke thrillkill urge of the opening half (Side One,
were this an LP proper), but those cuts pack enough firepower to get you
looking forward to the follow-up.