Burning Brides, ‘Leave No Ashes’

By • Jul 13th, 2004 • Category: Album Reviews

In 2001, Philadelphia’s Burning Brides were wrongfully slated among garage-revivalists like the Black Keys, The Hives and The White Stripes. The band’s brilliant debut would have had a nicer fit alongside fellow estrogenically named rockers Queens Of the Stone Age.

The trio’s second album finds the band stepping further out of the garage and into the hard-rock mainline. Frontman Dimitri Coats seems happy to embrace his guilty-pleasure guitar riffs and borderline-metal posturing. His recklessly abandoned vocals are as urgent as ever, and the band’s revamped rhythm section shines just as intensely.

Oh yeah, by the way, Mike Watt makes a guest appearance.

Northern Star, July 13, 2004

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