Frenzy Holy Roller Baby

• 1 Leper Blues / Spread Your Love Around 06:51
• 2 Drag the Lake 03:55
• 3 Your Body Will Sing 04:14
• 4 Blue Devil Inn 05:09
• 5 Run Through the Valley 03:27
• 6 Paper Tigers 02:16
• 7 Eve 05:10
• 8 Guillotine 03:58
• 9 Id Vicious 04:19
• 10 Ravings at Your Window 05:28
• 11 Mantra 03:35
• Total Runtime 48:22

Info for Frenzy

HOLY ROLLER BABY wurden 2017 in Austin/Texas gegründet. Auf dem Zettel haben die vier Herrschaften Siebziger-Jahre-Bluesrock, den sie selbst wie folgt beschreiben: „…hard rock rolls with primitive swagger…“.

Zu hören gibt es diesen Sound auf dem Silberling „Frenzy“, der mit der tonnenschweren Kopfnicker-Nummer „Leper Blues / Spread Your Love Around“ vielversprechend beginnt. „Drag The Lake“ übernimmt mit viel Drive, bevor „Your Boby Will Sing“ Blues und Soul verschmelzen lässt. „Blue Devil Inn“ bewegt sich auf einem hohen Energielevel, während das nachfolgende „Run Through The Valley“ durch seine Vertracktheit auffällt. Das instrumentale „Paper Tigers“ schlägt ruhigere Töne an und ist mit seinen 2:16 Minuten Spielzeit eher eine Interlude, die das druckvolle „Call You Eve“ einläutet. Nicht minder knackig kommt das coole „Guillotine“ daher, wohingegen „Id Vicious“ psychedelische Versatzstücke mitbringt und „Ravings At Your Window“ dazu einlädt, auf dem staubigen Highway in den Sonnenuntergang zu fahren. Das finale „Mantra“ hebt man sich derweil für einem Moment auf, der eines ganz besonderen Spannungsbogens bedarf.

Der geheimnisvolle Closer ist zweifellos eines der Highlights auf „Frenzy“, ansonsten gefallen mir die Jungs von HOLY ROLLER BABY am besten, wenn sie so richtig krachen lassen: ohne großen Firlefanz ordentlich was auf die Mütze!

Holy Roller Baby

Holy Roller Baby
is a Dallas, Texas based quartet deeply rooted in the seventies hard rock music. Formed in 2017 with a sole purpose to deliver nothing but pure rock’n’roll music, Holy Roller Baby are more than ready to shake your bones with some proper wall of sound. Their debut album Frenzy drops on October 9th, 2020, and this particular material showcases all the qualities of the entire group through eleven thoughtfully composed numbers. This profoundly energetic quartet promoted their upcoming debut through a couple of singles, such as Leper Blues and Ravings At Your Window. These meaningful tracks are promising enormous dosages of skillful musicianship, deeply stacked beneath layers of characteristic sound.

Besides a dominant presence of seventies hard rock sound, Holy Roller Baby flirts with a couple of more genres along the way. You may hear calmer blues moments, southern accentuations, giant slabs of a fuzzy stoner rock. The group also incorporates progressive and psychedelic rock, but these segments are subtle enough not to spoil the primary direction of the band. It’s interesting how the entire group precisely articulates throughout the album. The marvelously arranged interpolations from calmer bluesy rock segments to massive classic rock sequences are one of the signature moves of Holy Roller Baby, and it will satisfy even the pickiest admirers of these spectacular genres.

Despite their devotion towards all these genres, Holy Roller Baby is somehow avoiding all the cliches presented on the contemporary scene. Their music resembles the sound of the greats such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, MC5, Soundgarden, Kyuss, but the group tends to sound unique as much as this mixture of genres allows it. Holy Roller Baby takes advantage of the vital elements of seventies progressive, psychedelic, and classic hard rock music. Then blends it in with the heart and soul of blues and southern sound. Finally, the group covers this mixture with fuzzy sounds of stoner rock to spice things up a little bit more. Frenzy houses eleven profoundly melodic compositions, fully packed with soulful performance and emotional moments that will force you to spin this album again and again. However, this particular material carries enough massiveness to shake your body to the rhythm. It’s a comprehensive amalgam built upon all the qualities of classic hard rock music, so make sure not to miss this one.

This album contains no booklet.