Search - Sweep the Leg Johnny :: 4.9.21.30

Swept Away by 4.9.21.30

Russell A. Mitchell | Tuscaloosa, AL | 06/01/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I love this band and I love this album. I've seen these guys play a couple times and they rock. 4.9.21.30 really displays their talent as indie-emo-jazz-whatever...
If you have heard Sto Cazzo and loved it - get this album. If you haven't heard Sweep the Leg Johnny before I say it is high time you did. It is often chaotic, but chaos inside a carefully constructed framework. The band combines heart-felt rhythms with haunting saxophone sounds from that sometimes whisper and sometimes scream. The vocals are minimal, but powerful. In fact, the album's moments of silence are as pleasing as the moments of sound quietly interrupted. If you don't find it to be dynamic as well as beautiful then you're crazy."