Crows
Silver Tongues
(Balley Records)
4/5
Silver Tongues is the debut album from London’s Crows. The band plays a fusion between hard-hitting post-punk and hostile shoegaze, and they do a great job of it here.
This album throws you into the soundscape of a dive bar with its first track, “Silver Tongues,” which furnishes your eardrums with its throbbing, disobedient death march of a guitar rhythm, spackled with dissonant leads that are reminiscent of a Tool song.
The sinister cadence of the title track is consistent throughout the entire album, as the band erratically winds down in intensity to the album closer, “Dysphoria.”
Crows does an excellent job of playing with genres throughout this album, giving it a dynamic presence and making it an easy listen from front to back, especially for those of you with extremely eclectic music taste.
All and all, I anticipate that Silver Tongues will be a solid step forward for the band.