This CD is hard rockin from start to finish. Right off the block it delivers 3 driving songs - a little punkish, and totally unapologetic. Then Emilio is where they start to show their flirtatious diversity. Influences can be heard throughout: the Pixies, the Kinks, a little Beckish at times and a good measure of San Joaquin Valley roots rock.  The songs are fresh, well crafted and delivered with raw energy.  These guys need to be huge!
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Bar Guest is one of the best Local CD's I have heard for a while. It is a great listen that doesn't stop all the way through. This CD is definatley on my top five list.
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I stumbled on this band by accident by a random search in Google. The Google entry was a portion of an article between this writer and his friend discussing a band that they thought sounded a bit like The Pixies, so I clicked on the link being a huge Pixies fan and skeptically pressed on. The article was amusing enough for me to go to the band’s site and judge for myself. When I listened to the first MP3 available, I just loved this band.  I can understand The Pixies influence, but it’s not blatant……it’s just an influence that’s present in the approach to some of the songs. These guys have much more depth then that and explore more avenues later in the cd. Being a bass payer myself, I just love the production on this album, chalked full of distorted low end it doesn’t get much better then that. In this day and age, old schoolers like myself (closer to 40 then 20) have a bad habit of dismissing bands that remotely sound like something they already have listened to, my suggestion to all is don’t do the same towards this band. This is a really good band that made some really great music that one should explore. Listen to the tracks on Barguest you won’t be disappointed.
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