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★★★★ review of DATURA4 “Demon Blues” from GET READY TO ROCK
Lots going on with this album but it is cohesive, consistent and very, very listenable to. I keep hearing and reading that the album is dead and that people only download selected songs…for sure, your average music consumer today has a very short-attention span and is bombarded by content in the fragmented world we live in but the fact is that, very often, an album is patchy with highs and lows and lots of filler.
Not so with Demon Blues which grabs you early doors with the impossibly catchy “Out With The Tide” and doesn’t let up. Simplicity is a prevalent thread throughout this album but this is to the album’s credit, not detriment. Whether your bag is spacey blues or non-gloomy (White ?) Sabbathy riffs, Datura4 has produced a very delicious piece of work. The band name may sound like the moniker for a wrongly-imprisoned group of ne’er do-wells, preaching their innocence to the public but I’m assured Datura is a poisonous strain of flowering plant with possible aphrodisiac qualities (suspect you might have to smoke it to get the latter effect).
★★★★ 4 star review of HANDSOME JACK “Do What Comes Naturally” in GHETTOBLASTER
★★★ review of LEFT LANE CRUISER “Dirty Spliff Blues” in R2
★★★★ review of PRIMA DONNA “Nine Lives & Forty Fives” in GHETTOBLASTER
★★★★ review of LEFT LANE CRUISER “Dirty Spliff Blues” in BLURT MAGAZINE
The Upshot: Gritty blues-punk trio crafts heavy anthems for the nu-hemp generation.
BY TIM HINELY
Big things are happening in the world of Left Lane Cruiser, first off all since their last record weed has been legalized in Colorado (they move here yet?) and judging by the cover of this record, their 5th for the Alive Natural Sound records, that makes them very happy. Another thing is that the band has added a member. Yes, after plastering venues as a duo they are now a trio, adding Joe Brent on bass (on the inside over he’s shown holding his skateboard as opposed to his bass guitar so I like the guy already). – READ THE WHOLE REVIEW ON THE BLURT SITE
★★★★½ review of DATURA4 “Demon Blues” in the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Dom Mariani’s (the Stems, Someloves, the Domnicks) debut Datura4 LP features one-time You Am I and New Christs guitarist Greg Hitchcock and they’re a rock ‘n’ roll marriage made in heaven. Originally coming together in 2011, Demon Blues represents the pair’s unbridled passion for guitar-soaked boogie and giant riffs that get up in ya face from album opener Out With the Tide and stay there through the garage stomp of `60s-heavy You Ain’t No Friend of Mine to the lazy, hazy psych of Another Planet. – SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
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DaveDiMartino’s review of DATURA4 “Demon Blues”
An Australian combo featuring one-time members of the Stems, DM3, the New Christs and You Am I, Datura4 have taken all that is good about the shrieking and pounding that sonically preceded them, refined it via the garage, and on tracks like “Another Planet” emerged with something resembling soft-rockers America covering “Spirit In The Sky.” As sell-outs go? That’s hip. A great find for Alive Naturalsound, and a better one for you. Find ‘em, fool ‘em, but don’t Forget ‘em. – DaveDiMartino
CLASSIC ROCK’S Tracks Of the Week : Datura4 “Out With The Tide”
Out With The Tide is a thundering chunk of Antipodean boogie-sleaze, and rocks like a pair of possums on a see-saw.– CLASSIC ROCK