Dirty Heads Any Port In A Storm 10/21/2016

Dirty Heads Any Port In A Storm 10/21/2016The Dirty Heads comfortably combine hip hop and reggae with somewhat lesser dollops of conventional rock songwriting and arrangements on Any Port in a Storm. While those are the three main styles the group blend, they don't always use all three idioms in the same song, some tracks coming close to being straight hip hop, reggae, and or rock. Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan are even referenced in "Believe." It's an unusual mixture, but more clever

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The album follows the equally adventurous I'm with You (2011) and once again showcases guitarist Josh Klinghoffer

claiming in "Bulls On Parade" that "this microphone explodes

proffering a simile that compares the taste of an intimate part of her anatomy to Pepsi

dressed up in flannel and facial hair to disguise the fact that these melodies are

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To say this Jersey quintet subscribes to the half-empty-glass outlook on love and relationships is like saying Johnny Rotten is a slightly irritable chap

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soft textures as opposed to the typical hardness and aggression found in dance/electronic music

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