The title cut from Australian garage rock/psych rock outfit Datura4’s latest LP, West Coast Highway Cosmic, is the dash-pounding, air keyboard, rocking freakout this generation has long needed but was too afraid to ask for. Built on sturdy rhythms, lysergic twists and turns, and a vocal hook that won’t soon leave you, this is the […]
“Get Out” is an uptempo, rocking, middle-finger-at-full-mast sprint that owes equally to all band members. It’s a tough decision to choose either the crunchy chord progression or the Jerry Lee Lewis-esqe tack piano for track highlight. Paired with the closer, “Evil People, Pt. 1” (“Pt. 2” is on last year’s album—go figure), it makes for […]
READ THE INTERVIEW WITH DOM MARIANI HERE
The band are fronted by Australian Dom Mariani a man with quite a long list of former and current bands like DM3 and The Stems. With this album, like its predecessor, the band claims the territory of 70’s boogie, citing Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Beatles as heroes. So, much choogling, interesting arrangements and melodic […]
LITTLE STEVEN’S UNDERGROUND GARAGE : The Coolest Song in the World this week is ‘Get Out’ by DATURA4
West Coast Highway Cosmic is straight ahead, smart rock. Pure and simple. – SPILL MAGAZINE HERE
RUTA 66 MAGAZINE HERE
Impressive and power pop with the melodies and roots that belong in the garage without it tucking up the MC5 or Birdman. – RPM ONLINE HERE
Everything about Datura4 screams “throwback”. The album covers they have, the sound, but there’s something else too. Their work ethic. It always strikes me when you read those histories of rock n roll and so forth, an album a year was normal, a couple in a year wasn’t unheard of either. Datura4 are bringing it […]