Royal Baths
Better Luck Next Life
Kanine
2012
Rating: 6 platinum showers out of 10
Royal Baths are one of the many entries San Francisco has recently added to the garage rock scene. It's sort of a "slacker" garage sound though, with strong shades of Pavement and the Violent Femmes coloring their music and a little surf guitar garnish. You can almost feel the yawning through recording on tracks like "Burned" and "Be Afraid of Me." And honestly, my reaction to this record was similarly yawn-inducing. It's by no means a bad record, and it might grow on me with a few more listens, but the first impression it leaves is that of no impression at all.
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