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By: Dennis Cook
This is some fine old rock 'n' roll. You know, the kind you where you sort your stash on the sleeve, the kind that begins with the hiss of a beer can opening and ends with you coughing up a lungful of Einstein's Theorem, Acapulco Dawn or some named hydroponic horticulture. This EP offers a fine handshake for Buffalo, NY's Redwater, that grips you harder as it goes. As unassumingly welcoming as "Holding Onto Home" is, by the second cut of this four-tracker, "Yet Another Girl," they've dialed the amps up and brought in a dumptruck of sweet fuzz. They add some James Gang funk to "The Message" but keep the attack hard, unsentimental, lean. There's not an ounce of fat on Redwater, and closer "Good & Bad" suggests their ear for the hard stuff extends into Ozzy's '80s work, though the Hendrix-y guitar splashes keep things happily in the red and the whispered, machine-like backing vocals keep it from being nostalgia. This quartet is currently working on their full-length debut, and if they keep up what this glimpse suggests it's gonna be a fun one.
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