Blog: Chromewaves

MySpace It takes a lot to get me past my aversion to slap bass. I have no fondness for the technique, in fact it's pretty much anathema to me - so it's no small thing when I say that on Seven Across the Sea , the second album from Toronto's Key Witness , it works. The lead track, "Brother John", kicks off with a pretty intense slap attack before segueing into a barnstorming country rock number, and that approach - the melding of seemingly incongruous styles onto a raw, roots-rock core - is what [...]

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