Following on from their debut album ‘Hellride’, Gothenberg five piece Foobar The Band have produced ‘Your Fiend, My Friend’, sticking to their simple hard rock formula. Album opener, ‘My Friend’, with uncomplicated chugging guitars and catchy beat could easily have been a track by fellow Swedes The Hives with simple effective production and unpretentious guitars. This is followed up in a like vein by the stomp of ‘Catch 22’.
A departure into harder territory is heralded by the distortion laden opening of ’18 Years’, with stoner group chants over dirty fuzzy guitars, all powered forward by a rhythm section that could have been lifted from a seventies blues rock band, nicely complimenting the bluesy solos.
Track after track, the band exhort simple, hard, rock and roll, a style they play very well with tracks like ‘Revolution’ and ‘Dawning of a Day’, managing to add a little bit of a groove through heavy bass licks, very much in the vein of Clutch, a band they pay homage to on their website, and in the Deep South twang to their playing, never more apparent in the twanging opening of ‘All About You’ or the booze and blues lyrics of ‘Moonshine.’
If you long for metal where the band dress themselves in spikes, chains and gore paint, this isn’t a CD for you; if, however, you like to stamp along to some swaggering rock whilst swigging back your pint, this will be a good addition to your collection.
http://www.foobartheband.com
http://www.myspace.com/foobartheband
http://www.residerecords.com
