Dec. 12, 2012 - Issue #895-Japandroids
Damaged Goods
The Mohawk Lodge {recordings_bands_mg} Damaged Goods {/recordings_bands_mg}
White Whale,
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The Mohawk Lodge bandleader Ryder Havdale has always been a songwriting chameleon, absorbing and reflecting back the energies of those he's surrounded himself with. And after spending a chunk of 2010 touring across Europe with Eamon McGrath in tow—you can read all about that guy just a few pages back from here, so do that quickly and come back—it shouldn't be all that surprising that the album's 10 songs of sing-along rock don't seem too far away from McGrath's own 2012 release Young Canadians, especially given that McGrath recorded this one, and plays guitar here.Not that that's a bad thing at all: it's a good sound, that one, all brazen guitar-crunch and charged-up, howl-at-the-moon delivery, and the Lodge's particular spin on it gives it a pervasive current of joy. "When you're calling me so high / I wanna get so high too / I wanna get so high with you" Havdale shouts out on the album opener. It's a simple idea, like a lot of the songs here, but as deftly executed as it is, you'll want to raise a pint-glass and shout along your agreement. vueweekly.com comments: powered by Disqus
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