Detroit Concerts
Album Review: Stop Don't / Yes – Spitting Nickels
Spitting Nickels new album Stop Don’t / Yes is a hook heavy bag of blues-rock. Where the album clicks, it really clicks, everything comes together perfectly and makes you want to pump your fist (and any sexy person in the room). Dirty grooves, Mississippi via Michigan, bar rock. Stop Don’t / Yes is a fun ride.
Parts where the album lacks it just feels like it’s on a path treaded before. The peaks are very high, and the low points are few and far between. The weaker parts of the album have to do with a few cliché lyrical choices. The kind that make you think “oh, it’s that song I’ve heard a million times”. You haven’t, it’s just false memories implanted by a certain combination of words.
“I Can’t Go On Going On” has some interesting chordal structure and kicks into this heavy fast guitar solo at the bridge that ties it all together better than any rug ever could. The band seems like it has one hand on maintaining simple song structure and another hand on branching off into some blues psyche weirdness. I don’t know if they’re edging their bets, by appeasing both camps, but it almost seems like there’s 2 separate EPs here. I’m hoping they plunge full on into the psyche.
“Tie One On” is a clever and catchy pop jingle about surviving the crappyness of the daily grind. Always Doing Something, is a song I relate to very well, of dealing with women who are a mess that you just can’t get to sleep with you (“She’s always doing something, but she won’t do me!”).
The song writing credits are mixed between band members. Mixed and Mastered by Jim Diamond at Ghetto Recorders and released by Loco Gnosis records.
Don’t Stop / Yes is available on CD, vinyl, and mp3/itunes at Spitting Nickels website.
