The Yawpers: American Man
The Yawpers
American Man
(Bloodshot Records)
American Man is The Yawpersâ (singer/guitarist Nate Cook, drummer Noah Shomberg and Jesse Parmetâs guitar) second full-length release. It opens with a loud slip-and-slide, in-your-face, shift-and-strut, punk-sprinkled âDoing It Right,â while the title track that follows opens with slow, bluesy electric and Cookâs truly distinctive, almost Keith Richardsâ vocals. Halfway in, Shomberg throws in his big beat and things get dramatic without being overwrought and we can really chew on the great lyrics presented. âTiedâ rolls around from snapping drum/vocal verse pushing to over-driven growl choruses and Parmetâs driven pull-offs and slide. âDeacon Brodyâ is slide wacky snapping loudness into a rolling deep tom tom mess (in the best sense of the term). â9 to 5â is a staccato, muted meanness, with a great big singable chorus. It grooves like mad, between the more restrained verses and then the big slide guitar nastiness and my favorite lyric of the entire album, âAinât nobody gonna save you when youâre strung-out in Wichita .â Thereâs a big roil frantic-ness (channeling Johnny Cash maybe?) on the nasty âKiss It,â and a spooky echo slide builds to a storm stuttering beat into the low voice verses on the positively anthemic â3 am.â Presenting another great lyric: âI pissed on every monument and prayed to Oscar Wilde.â With spectacularly placed backing vocal âoohsâ and harmony vocals, this is the best tune on American Man for me, on an album of lots of great tunes.
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