It is not often that I go to see a band live and after seeing them continue to play their songs on my iPod. I can say after seeing these guys live and picking up their EP Señor and the Queen that they are currently my favorite band of the year.
If you have never listened to The Gaslight Anthem then I highly recommend that you pick up this 4 track EP. I don’t normally like EP’s as they don’t have enough songs but this EP really just smashes you with the sound that is The Gaslight Anthem. Now after 15 plays of this EP I still can’t stop listening to it. Their sound is hard to describe but I guess I would call it folksy punk.
The Gaslight Anthem have just released their second album called “The 59 Sound” and this follows on from where the great EP leaves us. Gaslight are getting rave reviews for their live act that I can agree with as they were simply amazing live and even stayed on after the show to chat to the fans. The quality of Gaslights work is so high that they were the first band in history to make the cover of UK magazine Kerrang! the UK’s number one selling rock weekly, without the publication having previously written a single word about them. Kerrang! called them “The best new band you’ll hear in 2008″.
I would agree with this they are one of the best new bands and not just more of the same old shit they actually have their own sound. Check them out I promise you won’t be let down.
95 Pennies.
Highlight track: Track 1 - Señor and the Queen
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