Every song on this debut crackles with electricity!
author: Luke Torn - Pop Culture Press
Here’s a band that will give the moribund alt-country scene a right swift kick. Led by onetime Continental Drifter Gary Eaton, ex-Legal Weapon/Guns & Roses drummer Adam Maples, and power popper Robbie Rist, LA’s Kingsizemaybe are a supergroup of sorts, one who from their gritty, full-bodied sound and absurdly strong songwriting, have a best-of-2008 album on their hands. Every song on this debut crackles with electricity. Country shuffle “I Wouldn’t Want to Be You” comes on like a turbocharged version of the Knitters, while the rough-hewn (optimistic) existentialism of “Big Maybe,” their theme song of sorts, rolls along like a great Stonesy country rocker without the pretense. Then again it would be heartless to paint these guys with a simple alt-country brush, as soul, R&B, and bluesy snarl all swirl within the grooves. Album highlight is “Dallas,” a wide-screen epic performed by the ensemble with a gospel fervor ala “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”: “All roads led to Dallas,” goes the chorus, which will immediately lodge comfortably into your medulla oblongata.
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