LADYBIRD, “Tombstoned”
Self-released
Press play on your tapedeck (or computer), crack open a cold beer in cue, and join Ladybird on their perspiring front porch in Tempe, Arizona. The two string-slingers of the band begin to tell a story with a subtle yet ample beginning; strumming their instruments slyly as the beer begins to drip sweat down the aluminum can. Mapping out the journey to the sludge-lain promised land, the second track hits hard with a relentless opening to impress an ache within your bones.
Being completely unable to avoid rolling one up, “Papers” ignites and puffs into your ears. A mastered progression from the previous EP’s hinted direction – heavy fuzz and feedback with an element of country-boy psychedelic. Heavy-hitting, almost funeral rhythm with a southern metal bass groove that underlies the aching growls and groans of the vocals. As the song comes to a close, the one thought that lingers is where you left your unfinished sack to roll up another.
“No Reason” is a nearly 9-minute conjuring of aggression and disdain. A harrowing display of power until a daze settles in, right when psychedelic guitars cue. A short enough break to regain consciousness as the distorted fury returns, pausing and punching your gut with every snide chord.
After burying you deep in tone and feedback, the band continues into their closing track, “Marble Orchard.” A 22-minute trudge that pushes the boundaries of your ears tolerance. Incomparable heaviness that pushes through the typical confines of like-minded stoner metal the band with variable rhythms straying from repetitive doom hangings or catchy stoner metal anthems — the band pushes their creativity by smoothly altering back and forth with drawn-out guitars into pulsating blasts of energy and charisma. Closing into a western-hinged psychedlia to close out the tune, the band are beginning to make me think they are lassoing the term cowboy sludge. -Rx
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LADYBIRD “Trail of Beers” 2013 Tour w/ Bottom Feeder:
8/9/2013 The Highline – Seattle, WA w/ Bell Witch
8/10/2013 The Know – Portland, OR w/ Contempt
8/11/2013 Hemlock Tavern (BBQ Matinee @ 7pm) – San Francisco, CA w/ Moses & Uzala (ID)
8/12/2013 Five Star Bar – Los Angeles, CA w/ Pigeonwing
8/13/2013 Yucca Tap Room – Phoenix, AZ w/ Goya
8/14/2013 The Trainyard – Las Cruces, NM w/ Oryx
8/15/2013 Beerland – Austin, TX
8/16/2013 Siberia – New Orleans, LA w/ Gristnam (mem. of Haarp)
8/17/2013 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA w/ Order of the Owl & Sons of Tonatiuh
8/18/2013 TBA – North Carolina
8/19/2013 Kung Fu Necktie (Upstairs) – Philadelphia, PA w/ Vilipend
8/20/2013 The Acheron – Brooklyn, NY
8/21/2013 Annabell’s – Akron, OH
8/22/2013 Ultra Lounge – Chicago, IL
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