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Friday, May 2, 2008
One angry, rockin’ disc
Le disc du jour:
rock
Local H
TWELVE ANGRY MONTHS
Anybody who’s been following Local H since it formed in the late 1980s doesn’t need to be told from the band’s latest album title that they’re angry.
Being hacked off at everything from women to the world at large has been a hallmark of their work all along, and anger in all its shades, colors and nuances has been a thematic touchstone for the vicious wordplay and biting, hard-edged rock produced by the duo of guitarist/bassist Scott Lucas and drummer Brian St. Clair all along.
This time, they trace a series of ugly, busted relationships over the course of a year, and the bloody-lip, no-prisoners wit of the telling is what makes it work. A song like “White Belt Boys,” in which Lucas wishes his ex to “have a lonely life,” knowing bitterly that she won’t miss him a bit, is typical. And oh, so true.
Grade: B+
iPod picks: “White Belt Boys,” “The One with ‘Kid’”
