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If you mixed Cream with the psychedelia of The Black Angels and the danceability of the Dandy Warhals, you’d get the picture of the band’s sound guitar based rock, excellent singing voices, and tight song structures. Mike shares singing duties with Ani Monteleone who’s voice is refreshingly direct. The music is spacy and groove oriented topped by clean, focused melodies. These themes are delivered in the most pleasing manner, though. The themes are influenced by guitarist and singer, Mike Guggino’s experience with his mother’s protracted battle with cancer. To be clear, that’s also why we here at E&D like the album. Death, suicide, rituals about death, transcending to some other plane that isn’t this one, the temporary nature of our existence, wanting to make this world hurt, suffer…oh, and, of course, rebirth. Deceptively, because while the guitars and vocals are a bit of a throwback to the time of bell-bottom jeans, jackets with tassels and flowers in your headband, the lyrical themes are dark as shit. The Space Merchants’ Kiss the Dirt straddles the stuff you like about psych, blues, acid and 70’s era hard rock, all the stuff your dad still listens to, while retaining modern era sound and complexity. “Somewhere between the astral plane and the sticky floors of a biker bar-that’s the sonic zone inhabited by Kiss the Dirt.” So, goes the album’s description on the band’s Bandcamp page and I can’t help but agree.
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