Review Summary: When a band split after their first record, it usually means they got it right the first time.
Dead Low Tide was formed after the breakup of the Murder City Devils in 2001 and released only one album. this self-titled record from 2003, after a few eps under their belt.
Dead Low Tide sound like the most angry Fugazi has never been, like the most punk sounding rock and roll band you have never heard of, like drunken sailors fighting at night outside a sleezy bar, like a car crash right in your living room, anyway enough with the stupid metaphors!
This album basicly rocks! It rocks hard and then even harder! The guitars and raspy vocals all battle to the get the attention of the listener, while the drums and the bass take off to a land of their own, in order not to collide with the rest of the band. Every sound on this record is put on there for a reason! Every note, beat and lyric is put on this album becasue it belongs on there and needs to be there in order to make every song take off!
Ok I admit, around track 6 or so, the album takes a well deserved rest and timeout on the sideline for a few minutes, only for it to come back like a revengeful wolf chasing you down a dead end street, (or whatever other kind of situation that would make you feel the slightest uncomfortable, whether it might be an unannounced visit from a family member or maybe a drunken monkey behind the wheel, while you are sitting on the backseat), and end of the album on a dense, low and very, very long note.
The album is actually quite well produced, despite the fact that half of the tracks sound like a train wreck musically, which of course is meant in the best possible way! There are no New-Wave keyboard or the ever-growing popular handclaps sounds found on this record, only punk-like driven rock and roll, cut down to the absolute core of what this kind of rock music is exactly suppose to sound like.
Album highlights would include: White flag, Navy buttons, Ill Eagle, Sideways machine, Well every song is worth hearing (There are only 10 of them anyway), and even though it may well go down in history as one of those great, raw and overlooked records of our generation: (You can insert you own suggestions for another record in that category here:............). The album has been ignored for to long now and it demands to be known among other records at the record store and by you if you have the slightest interest in punk music or the type of rock music with any kind of raw edge to it.
You should owe it to yourself, your friends, your loved ones....Well basicly anyone you know, to let this album into your own as well as others life. The album wont be a lonely dog out in the rain anymore, it wont be the kid left behind and it wont be the one without a date anymore!
This album deserves for you to dance under a dark moon, wearing nothing but purple gloves and 40 dollars in cash with its dark, rocking tones playing out loud behind, above and all around you, and if for nothing else, then only for the laugh of the people around you at that particually time and place.
Mmmm, a very bad ending to the review of a very good record. Check it out!
