Lamb Of God‘s Randy Blythe looks to have taken to reviewing albums in his recent free time. You can read his take on Crime & The City Solution‘s first album in over 20 years, “American Twilight“, over at Thetalkhouse.com. An excerpt from the review can be found below:
“Before the days of Pro-Tools and iPods and half-decent stock stereos in every car sold, musicians used to give new mixes of their tunes what we called “the boom box” or “car” test. This entailed transferring the music onto a cassette tape, slapping it into the crappiest thrift-store boom box possible, or even better, jumping in the beat-up car of whichever band member had scraped up enough money bartending or swinging a hammer to buy one, kicking the 7-11 coffee cups and beer cans out of the way, and going for a ride.
Almost everything sounds great cranking through Genelec active pro monitors and a bowel-rumbling subwoofer, but how will your genius translate through the tinny, blown-out, crud-encrusted speakers of a used 1992 Subaru SVX (first car I ever owned —named it “the Wedge,” cost me a whopping 100 bones)? Most of the time, you quickly and sadly realize that you have not, in fact, recorded the new Master of Puppets after all.”
