Sounds Like Edition: Lionlimb & My Golden Calf
By Aaron Stein Mar 16, 2016 • 12:40 pm PDT
Lionlimb: Shoo
You can spend a lot of time wrapped up in the rock and roll of Lionlimb’s new album, Shoo, just playing the “sounds like” game. Depending on the track, your mood, the time of day and barometric pressure outside, you might think you hear influences ranging from Steely Dan to Traffic, late Beatles to Elliott Smith, and given time to think, plenty of others, I’m sure. But really, there’s no need. This one stands on its own with its thoughtful mellow love songs and funky 70’s-soul-rock-groove thing. Horns and guitars in equal doses, harmonies and bumping bass…Lionlimb join the ever-growing parade of great music out of Nashville.
My Golden Calf: Perfume Brute
While we’re listening to fresh-on-the-scene rock bands, here’s one that recently caught my ear. They’re My Golden Calf out of Austin, Texas and their debut LP, Perfume Brute has that indie-rock sound I associate with a geographic curve through the center of the USA: starting with Wilco up in Chicago, curling through Kentucky, around Nashville and heading down home with Spoon in Austin. Perfume Brute features stellar songwriting and melodies that each seem to have a little extra something in there… plus great use of Wurlitzer and I really love the way the real raw pop of the bass. This one’s growing on me, for sure.
