Reviews

Ghost Highway

Los Bluffs Give Me Time EP

LOS BLUFFS offer up guitar-centric garage power pop that’s really nicely done. That’s not to suggest that the drums and the bass aren’t well-integrated, just that I feel like the guitar is the focus. I’m also a fan of the understated vocals that are pleasant, but not overbearing. You just kind of find yourself bouncing along with all three cuts, including an excellent JOY DIVISION cover. Really nicely done.

The Scaners X Ray Glasses: On EP

I’ve had enough of DEVO-core. Okay, I haven’t, but this single posits something maybe even more up my alley: NUMAN-core. Lyon’s the SCANERS hearken back to the TUBEWAY ARMY days while paying homage to garage rock in a way that sticks the landing beautifully. The B-sides work too, though not quite as much as the groovier/headier single, leaning more heavily on hard riffs than subterranean synth gloom. All-around nifty little release, though.