Goddamn Wolves - Barricades Are Overrun (self-released)

I probably said as much when I first encountered Goddamn Wolves and their previous single, “Seven Days A Week,” but this is a band that makes rock and roll music in a classic mold. I’m not saying that because they are in any way borrowing from the past to build a bright new future—actually, they do that, too, but they do so much more.

What seems to be the music’s most attractive quality is that while it is a fantastic slice of foot-on-the-monitor rock and roll, it does not play the games of genre, scene, sound, and style. It’s just rock and roll and everything that implies. It’s as simple as that, it’s as complicated as that. It’s a conundrum…but a beautiful one.

“Barricades Are Overrun” has a classic sound, but it isn’t in anyway stuck in that cliched place that classic rock comes from. It nods to a more alternative and perhaps underground audience but is as far removed from all that holier-than-though alt-rock bluster of that genre as is healthy. It bristles with indie chops and pop infectiousness, power-pop poise, and college rock cool, but it doesn’t fit neatly into any of those boxes either.

I love it when a song makes it easier to say what it is not than what it is, and what it is this – a song that is simply a near-perfect slice of rock and roll music. Maybe, I should have opened with that.

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