Artist: Drivin' N' Cryin'
Album: Songs From The Laundromat
Bitrate: 254kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: New! Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 28.59 megs
PlayTime: 0h 14min 50sec total
Rip Date: 2012-07-04
Store Date: 2012-06-12
Track List:
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01. Dirty 3:28
02. Ain't Waitin' On Tomorrow 3:33
03. REM 4:10
04. Baloney 0:32
05. Clean Up 3:07
Release Notes:
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In a world where the download is rapidly replacing physical product, more than a
few artists have declared the album is dead, but Drivin' n' Cryin' leader Kevn
Kinney has a slightly different view -- he's bored with albums, and tired of
watching his ideas get stale before he can get them into circulation. Or at
least that's Kinney's explanation why his band plans to release a series of four
EPs over the course of 12 months, beginning with Songs from the Laundromat in
June 2012. Running through five tracks in less than 15 minutes, Songs from the
Laundromat is intended to showcase the "rock" side of Drivin' n' Cryin', and it
opens with "Dirty" and "Ain't Waitin' on Tomorrow," two tough, raunchy rockers
that should bring a smile to anyone who still carries a torch for Fly Me
Courageous, while the 32-second "Baloney" is a proto-hardcore blast that
suggests the love child of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Descendents. The remaining two
cuts are wild cards; while "Clean Up" features some arena-ready guitar work from
Kinney and Sadler Vaden, the tone is heartfelt and the lyrics offer a melancholy
view of a broken relationship, and "REM" is a puzzler, built around titles and
lyrical bits from the catalog of the recently disbanded Georgia heroes and
boasting a melody that could have come from Peter Buck himself. It's hard to
tell if "REM" is meant to be a tribute or some sort of parody, but the other
four songs all connect on one level or another, and like 2009's The Great
American Bubble Factory, Songs from the Laundromat makes it clear that Drivin'
n' Cryin' still have plenty to say despite spending most of the aughts under the
radar. If Kinney and his bandmates can keep cranking out short-form product this
good, maybe it's just as well if they don't bother with full-length LPs any
more.