Comments on: The Heavy – The House That Dirt Built http://elevenmusicmag.com/new-music/the-heavy-the-house-that-dirt-built Music, Community, and Culture in St. Louis Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nazared http://elevenmusicmag.com/new-music/the-heavy-the-house-that-dirt-built/comment-page-1#comment-63 Nazared Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:36:45 +0000 http://elevenmusicmag.com/?p=365#comment-63 Lordy, I don't know what you're on, but your review couldn't be more jaded. I had the pleasure of seeing them live and there is little or no gimmick about any of this album's songs. Yes they hop around 90 years of music like fleas on a corps, but that is by choice. Sometimes, just sometimes, bands have the guts to be broad. There were a few before them, I can think of a foursome with one Frederick Bulsara singing and playing piano and I can think of A(labama)3's album "Power in the Blood", and you probably would have written them next to the Bismarck as well if you had the chance. I admire what the Heavy try to do with their music, they step out of the mold of hitmaking-land and dare to stick out where evereything else stinks of X-factor blandness. This album is varied and uses the legacies of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Ike Turner without compromising either and throws in some fire that I lately only have seen matched by Anouk and by the Jackson Analogue. I know you are paid for to be critical, but if you don't love music as a language of the Human Heart it easily turns to cynicism. This is a way out of computer edited plink plonk and I welcome it. I have featured them last week on my radio hour and will try to get them in the studio when they are in town. Lordy, I don’t know what you’re on, but your review couldn’t be more jaded. I had the pleasure of seeing them live and there is little or no gimmick about any of this album’s songs. Yes they hop around 90 years of music like fleas on a corps, but that is by choice. Sometimes, just sometimes, bands have the guts to be broad.

There were a few before them, I can think of a foursome with one Frederick Bulsara singing and playing piano and I can think of A(labama)3′s album “Power in the Blood”, and you probably would have written them next to the Bismarck as well if you had the chance.
I admire what the Heavy try to do with their music, they step out of the mold of hitmaking-land and dare to stick out where evereything else stinks of X-factor blandness. This album is varied and uses the legacies of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Ike Turner without compromising either and throws in some fire that I lately only have seen matched by Anouk and by the Jackson Analogue.
I know you are paid for to be critical, but if you don’t love music as a language of the Human Heart it easily turns to cynicism. This is a way out of computer edited plink plonk and I welcome it. I have featured them last week on my radio hour and will try to get them in the studio when they are in town.

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