Stavesacre

Does anyone really care to know if this is the band’s first indie DIY release or that the packaging consists of a folded sleeve or that there’s four new songs or that they’ve returned to working in the studio with Bryan Carlstrom? All of these factors are important, but what you really want to know is if this disc finds the band back in the fine form they displayed on Speakeasy before they wandered onto a split with Denison Marrs, a poorly recorded live album on XS, a self-titled full-length on Nitro, and an alternative take on a best-of with its former T&N label (the last two of which re-released songs from the split). That’s the crux of the matter, isn’t it? In other words, have they stopped fooling around and started rocking again? The band certainly rocks. The sounds are a little more blunt and raw, a la Absolutes. The lyrics are as deep, personal, and thoughtful as ever. It sounds like the band is back in a good creative place; yet they haven’t quite been able to raise their bar any higher with this teaser EP. [Stavesacre Foundation] Kern County Kid, the

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