The Concrete's Always Grayer On The Other Side Of The Street:Vietnam

Title: the Concrete’s Always Grayer on the Other Side of the Street

Label: Vice

Genre: amazing, intellectual rock

Rating: 7 of 7

I feel bad for Vietnam… Michael Williams and Joshua Garrett, based in Long Island via a small Texas town, are currently trapped in the wrong place at the wrong time. Taking influences mostly from the politically-tinged rock ballads of the war-stricken 60s and 70s, the duo is manifesting its unbearable frustration through two subtly heavy guitars and delicately pissed off vocals. The five songs that make up this amazing EP are drenched in the dense muggy weather that can be found in southern Asia as well as a late summer night in the city. This is how Vietnam is so powerful; they can take one distinct feeling and manipulate it into a vast array of powerful emotions. This EP moves along at a very slow and quiet pace, but every song is amazingly heavy and made up of more intellectual and musical levels than most full lengths have throughout (along the same way that Sonic Youth or the Velvet Underground compose a song). You should play the hell out of this, because now that I think about it… this EP is as relevant now as it would have been then (maybe even more)

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