Morning 40 Federation (CD/Rock)
Sound: B Music:
B-
Bands are still out there keeping (or trying to keep) Rock
music alive and some of them know this means having a muddied sound on
purpose. Not the kind of overdone bass
so overly familiar to the Hip-Hop genre, but the kind of mud more typical of
The Rolling Stones or the many Punk bands of the 1970s. The self-titled album Morning 40
Federation is a big fan of that sound, intoxication included.
In one way, it is covering the same ground we have heard
before, but guess what, so are the people living the lifestyle. Beyond that then, what does the album have
to offer? Well, as far as the tracks
go, they are:
1) Introduction
2) Gotta
Nickle
3) Headlamp
4) Bottom
Shelf Blues
5) Stinky
6) Jimmy
Cousins
7) 9th
Ward
8) One In the
Bottle
9) Nuts
10) Frenchy
11) Chex It
12) Chilli Cheese Fries
13) Professional
14) Sorry Mom
So the titles do not suggest anything too challenging, but
this is Rock and that is not the point.
There is a touch of New Wave here by way of Punk, but bluesy Rock is the
best way to describe the tracks. The
Blues part is never so overbearing that it eclipses the Rock, and this is not
as much of a throwback as it might seem.
The album is best aimed at fans of this type of Rock, but the band will
have to go further on their next work if they intend to make a career out of
this sort of thing. The PCM 2.0 Stereo
sound is solid enough, so we’ll see what they come up with next. In the meantime, Morning 40 Federation
is worth a listen.
- Nicholas Sheffo
