Album Review: Red Sky Blues

We’re all quietly insane, some are just louder than the rest. An apt description of the songs on Red Sky Blues’s eponymous album. The results are the same, the feeling of you face melting down your neck into your drink, but the process is different, and so is the drink.

The song Dwell, that’s a slowly sipped Bahama Mama with Jamaican rum in a stale and dusty hotel room during a stormy day on a tropical island. Glowing is three fat fingers of bourbon on the rocks, one you’re trying to drink pressed forcibly against the speakers in the front of a raging mosh-pit in a cramped local bogan bar.

The sound is an upbeat mix of Doom Metal and Psych Rock, as if Beastwars or Mastodon cranked it up to Mars Volta level frenetic. Art Rock meets the hard stuff. The 420 is strong with this one.

It’s an eclectic, international sound, unlike anything you’d usually find around here. Where would I have even found this band if it wasn’t for my spurious ties to the industry? It’s so hard to find these little air pockets of amaze in a sea of s***e. There just isn’t much like this out there and I wouldn’t know where to look.

Lucky for you, there is me. Red Sky Blues is available from the Red Sky Blues Bandcamp Page, and I can’t recommend this album enough. It’s a trip.