LORD FOWL
Moon Queen
Connecticut four-piece Lord Fowl are a stoner-rock act with
classic rock leanings and a real eye and ear for quality riffs and melodic songwriting.
What I didn’t really get from this album, however, was a sense of anything particularly
original or groundbreaking.
The band has clearly
mastered the formula on tracks like ‘Woman King’, where the riffs, vocals,
powerful rhythm section and mood coalesce into something genuinely incredible.
All too often however, the band just seem super-competent and self-assured
rather than utterly transcendent.
Perhaps I’m being
overly critical here. Chiding a stoner-rock band for unoriginality is like
complaining your plate of fish and chips isn’t a bowl of snail porridge. While
I would unreservedly recommend this album to any fans of stoner-rock, if you
only occasionally dip your toes into the genre then you might want to wait for
the next bus to come along.
Austin Matthews
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