CD REVIEW: BLOW – When I’m Gone

CD REVIEW: BLOW – When I’m Gone
Independant
2016
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
7 ½ /10

The hard-as-nails hottie with her shirt undone and six-shooter at the ready on the cover of Blow’s When I’m Gone got us expecting the latest in a terribly long line of sleaze rock wannabes hoping to catch the eyes, ears and wallets of the young and wasted… However, we couldn’t have been more wrong!

Blow deliver a well-crafted album of mature rock anthems that would’ve spawned a clutch of minor hits back when radio and the charts cared about new rock music.

Opening with the instantly likeable It’s A Start, and the groovin’ Goodbye, it’s immediately apparent that Blow have a lot of experience, and it’s all there between the grooves.

Such is their assured confidence as a unit, on tracks like Narrow Minds, When I’m Gone and Broken Heart at first listen Blow sound almost TOO casual and laid back. Successive listens, though, reveal subtleties and depth not instantly evident.

Driving riff n’ roller Doctor kicks off a closing trio of slide-drenched rockers to close what turned out to be an unexpected treat of a record.

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