The Datsuns, ‘Outta Sight / Outta Mind’
By user • Sep 23rd, 2004 • Category: Album Reviews
It’s good that the four lads in The Datsuns can play with their eyes closed.
If they couldn’t, the sweat-drenched locks dangling in their faces would be a problem to those thunderous guitar riffs they rely on.
But they can, and we’re left asking what happens when a right-place-right-time band that resulted from the “sign anything” period of rock’s revival enlists a big-name producer like John Paul Jones to hone its intensely spastic sound?
Answer: “nothing special.”
Besides the chanting choruses and fist-pumping rally cries to “Keep outta sight/ Outta Mind” during “Don’t Come Knocking,” this sophomore effort lacks the focus to deviate from their lackluster debut.
One part Sex Pistols; three parts influence of 1970s stadium acts like Deep Purple and Cactus. It’s a pinch of uninspired bass lines, with a dash of hammer-like drumming wrapped in overwhelmingly choppy guitar solos.
Top it all off with a helping of Dolf Datsun’s squeal-to-mumble-back-to-squeal vocal flux, and voila — you have The Datsuns.
Or The Hellacopters. Or The Riverboat Gamblers. Or Jet. Or Superbees. Or … you get the idea.
Northern Star, Sept. 23, 2004
user is
Email this author | All posts by user