Whatever else The Men have been over the years—and the New York band known for tough, noisy garage rock songs has done several other things besides—they’ve never been half-assed about their music.
Led by co-founders Nick Chiericozzi and Mark Perro, The Men have explored country, surf and classic rock styles, along with the punk and noise influences that first launched the band in 2008., a ferocious album that keeps the needle buried in the red for most of its 37 minutes. These 10 songs, also featuring drummer Rich Samis and bassist Kevin Faulkner, are sweaty and lean, packed with buzzsaw guitars and speedy, bludgeoning rhythms.
After the first couple of bars, “Hard Livin’” shifts into a pummeling rocker where guitars surge over a percussive piano part while Perro sings in a leathery yawp, like he’s been gargling the shards of glass in that alley. The song doesn’t end so much as downshift directly into the second track, “Peace of Mind,” where a grimy riff takes over and the vocals jostle for space with the guitars over a relentless beat.
There are hints here and there of The Men’s other musical pursuits: fans of The Who will find plenty to love in the riff and wordless backing vocals of “Eternal Recurrence,” while “Anyway I Find You” is maybe almost a power ballad, albeit one that envelops the yearning harmony vocals in a thick blanket of gnashing guitars. At any rate, it’s the one song onEven so, “Anyway I Find You” is no less intense than the rest of the album, which feels in its way like a homecoming.
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