Album Review: Yard of Blondes - Feed the Moon (2021)
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Yard of Blondes - Feed the Moon
Release Date: May 19, 2021
Label: Die Laughing Records / Golden Robot Records / Secret Pole Dance
Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital
Length: 43:02
Genre: Grunge / Alternative Rock
Origin: Los Angeles, California, USA
"Feed the Moon" is the long-awaited debut album by LA's Yard of Blondes. Forrest Mitchell (drums, vocals), Burak Yerebakan (guitar), Fanny Hill (bass, vocals), and Vincent Jacob (guitar, vocals) provide their audience with a contemporaneous mix of Grunge, Alternative Rock, Desert Rock, and a certain Punk Rock attitude. The nine-track album contains several singles that have been released before and some new tracks.
Massive riffing meets heavy rhythms and melodic leads when Yard of Blondes present their colourful music. The quartet creates boppy and motivational soundscapes although the songs' content is not always as joyful as it may appear at first; 'Hummingbird' (video above) for example concerns prolice brutality and structural racism.
Yard of Blondes take the best of 90s rock music and re-invent it in a contemporary style. With songs such as '1994' the Californian band has produced some hits that are likely to make it to big radio stations, while other tracks are the perfect soundtrack for an all-nighter at the desert.
Me being a huge Desert Rock fan, I mostly enjoy the songs that are driven by heavy fuzz and massive riffs, such as 'Evil Twins'. Still, "Feed the Moon" is a coherent release that deserves to be played from beginning to end, with the rewind-button activated.
Yard of Blondes' debut is another example for the versatile Grunge revival we are experiencing. And it shows that genres like Grunge and Desert are still far from being exhausted. Hence, I would not be surprised if this vinyl record will be amongst my next Bandcamp Friday purchases.
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