{"id":33918,"date":"2015-04-19T17:02:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=33918"},"modified":"2015-04-19T17:02:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T22:02:54","slug":"drenge-undertow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/04\/19\/drenge-undertow\/","title":{"rendered":"Drenge: Undertow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Unknown3\"Brother duo Drenge\u2019s debut Undertow is as ominous and threatening as the cover suggests. If you were going to drive your car straight into the woods, this would be the album that would be found in your CD player by the cops the next morning\u2014all the songs make you feel like you want to break sh*t!<\/p>\n

A few constants on the album are the solid, rhythmic bass and drums that are the backbone of each song; they give the album a sense of toughness and swagger (yeah, that\u2019s a stupid word, but you get what I\u2019m saying!) There are very few, if any, solos and instead the band focuses on their lyrics.<\/p>\n

Each song seems very personal, but they are also coherent with the other songs and they form somewhat of a story. It\u2019s a shame that \u201cWe Can Do What We Want\u201d is a DNP because it is by far the best on the album (you can\u2019t tell he\u2019s saying \u201cfuck\u201d, but rules are rules\u2026). Otherwise, \u201cRunning Wild\u201d is my favorite; it\u2019s the epitome of what this album is\u2014strong lyrics, heavy bass and drums, 70s metal-esque riff.<\/p>\n

Undertow is a little monotonous, but there are a handful of really great songs, and I definitely recommend it.
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\nRecommended If You Like: Black Angels, Queens of the Stone Age, early Rush, some Nirvana, some Led Zeppelin, Arctic Monkeys
\nRecommended Tracks: 2 (Running Wild), 7 (Side By Side), 10 (Standing in the Cold)
\nDo Not Play: 4 (We Can Do What We Want), 5 (Favourite Son)
\nWritten by Caroline Roe on 04\/17\/2015 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Review of Drenge’s debut Undertow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":33919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[2951,2999,986,3000],"class_list":["post-33918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock-rotation","tag-caroline-roe","tag-drenge","tag-rotation","tag-undertow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Unknown3.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}