Tin Bangs - Heavy-Handed Darling
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I believe this is the first album that I have ever heard where this band has to been seen live. Every song on Heavy-Handed Darling gives off the feeling and sound where you feel like you are watching the band perform each song right in the room that you are listening to the album to. A perfect example of what I am talking about would be the Kiss Alive album. The album just gives you the feeling that you are there watching the band live. I am not sure if this was the intended nature that the producer had in mind, but WOW does it ever work for me.
Tin Bangs is made up of four members, Ben Taylor on Vocals and Guitar, Bryan Dunlay on Lead Guitar, Robbie Butcher on Percussion and Phil Darling on Bass and Vocals.
Heavy-Handed Darling consists of five tracks Shake!, He’s So Pretty, The Skinny. Two Nights Out Of Three, and City Lights.
Along side the production credibly of the album, another main factor that makes me a fan of this album is the vocals. I find to me the vocals have a wide mixture of attributes that have all combined to create a sound where you know that it is Tin Bangs. Now to describe what the vocals sound like think New Age British Vocals mixed with a touch of Tokyo Police Club vocals, mixed with New Age Indie Band Vocals and finally 70’s Rock Vocals.
“Shake!” starts off Heavy-Handed Darling, the song immediately grabs your attention with a catchy drum beat, with leads into opening riff. Throughout the song the opening riff is played over a couple of times, which suits me just fine. A small note that I have to make about the lyrics in the song is how the first word in a couple of lines are stuttered for a couple of seconds. It is a small noticeable element in the song but I find it is something that stands out in the song.
“He’s So Pretty” is the second track off of Heavy-Handed Darling. In and around the midway duration of “He’s So Pretty”, you really start to get and feel the vibe that comes off the album. While listening to this track I started to hear the sounds of the Retro’s Eighties coming back to life, I only seem to get the feeling when I listen to the vocals and not so much the instruments in the song.
“City Lights” finishes off Tin Bangs' Heavy-Handed Darling. The opening twelve seconds to the song is something that I probably could do with out, because all it is one guitar string being played. The sound is played throughout the majority of the song. What saves this songs for me is the instrument composition which is played in the first and second verses and covers three lyric lines at a time. The composition is also played over a couple of times to finish out the song. Out of all the songs on the album “City Lights” was the right song to be placed at the end of the album. Unlike the other songs on the album, this song by the way it finishes off it gives you the sense of closure and the ending of the album.
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