Low Flying Owls

Editor's Review:

Low Flying Owls cast their excellent Brit-influenced rock in a swirling backdrop of delays, haunting, half-heard spectral resonance, sweeping feedback and cavernous reverberation. And though these elements provide a distinctive sonic coloration to this Sacramento group's stormy atmosphere, it's the way they arrange their parts - stacking punchy and melodic bass lines on creative, unique drum beats, guitar riffs layering over meaty chords, wafts of keyboards and occasional flashes of trumpet - that drives the music into a solid, cohesive explosion of saucy groove and wry sneer. The opening track, "La Da Da," asserts itself with perfect fuzzed-out guitar riffs, setting a tone of intrigue and characteristic discorporate mystery, while Jared Southard's cheerless voice deadpans "My curiosity kills, it kills cities of cats." Good listening experience.

- Maurice S. Teilmann
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Record Label The Americans Are Coming Records Released February 2003

Tracks La Da Da Orphans for Sale April May