Rustic Overtones mix up pop, funk, jazz, rock, tin cans, and um, well anything that seems to make the music sound like music.
“C’mon” has a reggae flavor while “Gas On Skin” mixes that formula with rock then they take that further to throw in a little Dave Matthews flavor and sprinkle that onto “Love Underground”. David Bowie flies in for “Sector Z” and I’d be damned if he doesn’t steal the show and the whole album right out from underneath Rustic Overtones feet.
Rustic Overtones are pretty good, but its nothing you’d find laying around my car on a road trip. It’s just a bit too eccentric for my taste. Too arty, too uncertain. I don’t necessarily like the certain, but when a band can’t figure out who they are after a handful of albums I wonder what in the world there deal is.
+ rae gun
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