Search - Rambling Shadows :: Tools & the Stuff

A Perfect Album

bill hanke | Bethesda, Maryland | 01/13/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"this is the amazingly great debut album by DC's Rambling Shadows. it's hard to believe people still make music this good in a world controlled by corporate uniformity and bland pop pablum. the band is Jay Moglia and Scott Wingo from Crippled Pilgrims, and Charles Steck from Velvet Monkeys. the sound is an amalgam of classic DC punk and psychedelic rock n' roll full. no filler here, every song is a potent concoction of energy and art that hits hard right between the eyes, with a more than a nod to the third eye. an aggressive double guitar attack weaved around a truly heavy, pulsating rhythm section. every song is a different chapter in a book you don't want to end. for those who must have new, meaningful, hard-rockin' music, this is just what the doctor ordered. The Tools and The Stuff is the rare perfect album that comes along so infrequently these daze."