Reigning Sound

The Reigning Sound's new Record "Too Much Guitar" came out last week. I've been listening to it pretty much non stop since then. It's a great combination of their first two records, it tones down some of the country feel of their first record and ups the rock of their second record. It then turned that up a notch and fuzzed it out. On a lot of the songs it created a more classic sixties garage sound than either of their first records. The sound really comes out on the Your Love Is a Fine Thing. But the country influence that really helps define their sound is still their on songs like Drowning.
They also seem to have picked up a little of the rhythmic gospel sound The Deadly Snakes have played on their last two records. "We Repel Each Other" and "When You Touch Me" has a bass heavy stripped down thumping blues influenced rock with an evangelical twist. A kind of charismatic Memphis root feel to it shakes its way through the record. You can imagine an audience of tambourine bangers fainting and fanning themselves.
The production on this record is a little muddier and the guitars are more jangley, especially Get It, than either of their other records and the guitars are turned up and in the front of the mix. But the record is called Too Much Guitar for those who don't quite get it.
There are enough songs on this record that could fill the A side of a forty five that the record almost totally lacks the slow spots of "Time Bomb Highschool". Except for Funny Thing and Excedrine Headache #265 the record barely slows down to let you breathe. In The Red Records and the Reigning Sound have turned out another winner and y'all should rush down to the record store with your hard earned green clenched in your waving grimy fist to get this record.