'Never Learn to Cry' is the first single release from the new ROGERS SISTERS' album, 'The Invisible Deck', and both of the featured tracks are good solid slices of quality rock n roll.
That both the A side and its reverse, 'The Clock' sound like two parts of the same record is testament to the raw strength of the sound that this Brooklyn based outfit create. Despite the title of the second track, its 'Never Learn to Cry' that opens with a loud ticking sound on dampened down guitar. The bass pulsates with it, and the effect is more like a time bomb than the clock in your granny's (best) front room. The struggle to contain the superbly demented whining feedback is a violently fought losing battle as the chorus half explodes the first time round.
Dropping out into a drum riff the vocals emerge in a dirty, flat tone that conveys the whole twisted emotional and lyrical mess(age) just as well as the overall sound. Though there is a deliberately jagged edge, there is also sonic clarity about the music, uncluttered by FX and crystal clear in spite of and at odds with the vocals. The tension becomes almost unbearable, before the whole lot goes ballistic, and the second chorus is drowned beneath a tidal wave of ear splitting rhythm guitar. This becomes stop-start bursts of machine gun fire in 'The Clock' and then a scraping tremelo assisted descent into madness.
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The dull thump of the drums marks out time along with an insane mantra: "The clock struck one/The clock struck two.....". It's not original, not at all. What it is though, is powerful and vital sounding. The busy, chaotic feel is typical of a three-piece band, and this release is one that makes you want to see The Rogers Sisters live.
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