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From the New York Times When Erika Wennerstrom announces "I'm gonna take everything, everything!" on the Heartless Bastards' debut album "Stairs and Elevators" (Fat Possum), the raw quaver in her untamed voice gives her as much bite as the distortion on her guitar. Bravado runs through her songs, which drag midtempo British rock - from the Kinks to Bowie to Oasis - into a grimy American garage. Between her constant fuzz-tone and her burly two-man rhythm section, the album as a whole grows one-dimensional. But before it does, Ms. Wennerstrom leaves a vivid impression.
From the New York Times ... be sure to show up early enough to see the Heartless Bastards, an appealing trio led by Erika Wennerstrom, who guides her bandmates through bare-minimum rock songs: they're stingy with notes but not with swagger, especially when Ms. Wennerstrom curls her lip to declare, "My new resolution is to be/ Someone who does not care what anyone thinks of me/ 'Cause I don't even like myself, half the time." |