Album Review : Akimbo – Jersey Shores
The most unfortunate fuck up in every music listener’s repertoire is that the listeners will always have expectations towards new release. And by norm, the standards are high. This is why .. er .. bummer! Writer’s block.
The following album review does not relate with the above statement. The album that I reviewed is an old release that I have in collection.
Jersey Shores by Akimbo.
Akimbo - Jersey Shore
With a concept album based on the real-life shark attacks that inspired the cinematic classic Jaws, Akimbo bust out music that equals such ferocity. Akimbo continue pumping out records at a prodigious pace, this one following closely on the heels of the last release, Navigating the Bronze. This is their sixth full-length in seven years and Jersey Shores offers the Akimo leitmotifs: careening drum squals, swollen bass, filthy guitars and desperate, throat ravaged screams. Yet they’ve retooled their approach, with longer songs and lengthy quieter passages. Jersey Shores features the clearest production as well as most thought out songs of any Akimbo release. “Matawan” introduces their evolution with more Neurosis-like finesse at balancing delicate parts with slow moments of skull-crushing intensity. “Lester Stillwell” and “Jersey Shores” are over 11 minutes of that recipe. Such an onslaught is certainly heavy, though rather overwrought given their redundancy. Yet the album’s strengths coalesce on the guitar grunge odyssey “Rogue”: a sublime portrait of Akimbo at their best. Jersey Shores display a band at the peak of their powers.
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