Anglo is a short, sweet, and in your face EP from Scruffy & The Janitors, a garage rock trio from up the road in St. Joesph, MO. They’ve been getting some attention from radio stations around the area and for good reason .They’re a pretty good blues rock band just getting their feet wet (this is their first EP not recorded in a living room).
Overall it’s a pretty standard hard rock EP. They don’t try to reinvent the wheel with any other their songs but they don’t really need to. Each song is less than 4 minutes and all but one of them is longer than 3 minutes. The lead singer of the band was quoted as saying, “Someone stabbed me in the back, and that gave us most of this EP.” That pretty much tells you all you need to know about what the album will sound like. Hard cymbal crashes, in your face guitars, and angsty vocals.
Pretty good hard rock album and if you like bands like The White Stripes or The Black Keys, you’ll probably like at least one of the songs off this EP.
Recommended if you like: The Black Keys, The White Stripes
Recommended tracks: “Shake It Off” and “Dirtleg”
Reviewed by Tyler Daniels on September 25, 2014