LaFaro – Easy Meat – Album Review – Hear It Here!

Just as I was starting to believe that rock music was becoming stagnant and unexciting ‘Easy Meat’ from LaFaro popped up on my radar, a whirlwind of guitar distortion and filthy, pounding rhythms where everything has been turned up to eleven, making it the most blisteringly painful experience since The Wildhearts ‘Endless Nameless’.

Opener ‘Full Tilt’ comes hurtling in at break neck speed, a blur of big riffs and cymbal crashes, with ‘Langer’ slipping in a short comedy break before ‘Sucking Diesel’ injects swagger and groove to the mix. The formula is now complete and LaFaro have you hook, line and sinker, flailing your head and arms relentlessly. Riffs don’t come much bigger and bouncier than on ‘Boke’ and ‘Meat Wagon’ while ‘Slide On’ and ‘Off The Chart’ come across as the bastard love child of Open Hand and Queens Of The Stone Age. Topping this with a heavy influence from fellow Northern Irish band Therapy? creates a vein of dark humour which flows throughout the albums lyrics and intervals, assuring that album closer ‘Maudlin’ could happily lay alongside the acoustic parts of ‘Suicide Pact – You First’.

LaFaro make great, ballsy music which will never find them filling stadiums but should land them a loyal fan base, happy to bloat the sweat drenched walls of many smaller venues. Omitting a couple of the grungier moments and a few interludes would have helped keep things tidy and led to LaFaro receiving my first five star review, as it stands ‘Easy Meat’ is an outstanding showcase of hard rock ‘n’ roll, a dangerous album to have in the car unless you want to receive a hefty speeding fine.

Courtesy of LaFaro and a few other recent noiseniks my faith in modern rock music has been restored, and my neck aches like it’s never ached before…

LaFaro – Easy Meat (Album) by Smalltown America

You can Preorder here: http://www.independentmusic.com/releases/lafaro-easy-meat

Track Listing

1 Full Tilt
2 Langer
3 Sucking Diesel
4 Wingers And Chips
5 Scully
6 Boke
7 Yes!
8 Have A Word With Yourself
9 Easy Meat
10 Easy Peasy Meat
11 Settle Petal
12 Pat-A-Cake
13 Off The Chart
14 Hum Strum
15 Slide On
16 Christmas
17 Meat Wagon
18 Maudlin