Add in Zimmerman’s nasal wheeze, and the dominant sound of Chrome Cactus is " Silversun Pickups without the 'Guitar Hero' riffs", which means the Young does a better job of making you reconsider Silversun Pickups than that band’s own singles collection. The Young don’t even really play motorik-style rhythms, as just about everything here ends in the same place it started, at the same volume. He wields Chrome Cactus' inert melodies like blunt objects, nudging at the rhythm section’s endless boogie only in the slightest. Hans Zimmerman’s voice isn’t tuneless, it just has the range of a touchtone phone. The Jesus and Mary Chain? I mean, who doesn’t like Psychocandy? The syllabus of Chrome Cactus reads like the most basic indie rock bio-as-OKCupid profile: it’s not intriguing in the slightest, but it hits all the right SEO points.Īnd like most astute but unambitious crate diggers, you get the sense that the Young rep JAMC because it allows them to hide behind distortion, psych, and Kraut-because when it comes to writing hooks, those formats sorta let you off the hook. ZZ Top and Tom Petty? Hell, big part of their upbringing. Kraut-rock? Of course, that’s the good shit, man.
Are they into psych-rock? Oh, definitely. At the very least, they put on for their city of Austin, adhering to the presumable spirit of SXSW which is, to veer off in a multitude of directions while still using both parts of “indie rock” to determine their true north. This is not to say the Young lack good taste-they just have nearly the same exact taste as nearly every other upstart guitar band that wants a minute of your time.
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