Still waiting for Box.Net to work out what the problem is with downloads. Hopefully sorted out soon!

Until, then…The Lowriders are a Colchester based four-piece. Formerly known as Freud, their experience of creating an album from scratch and attempting to release it while maintaining as much creative control as possible feeds into this, their latest album, Fury.

In 2008 the band decided to turn a new page, leaving their record label behind, renaming the four-piece, creating their own label (Adrenalin Records) and finally releasing their first single under their newfound identity – 2010’s Big Moustache.

The album opens with a flood of distorted guitar and driving percussion, and it rarely lets up. It’s a return to the gritty side of rock and roll, when smoke-filled venues would be captivated by gravel-voiced front men, and simple, yet refined, melodies and percussion. Fury lacks pretension and represents the work of a band who have discovered a sound in which they feel comfortable, and infused it with critically biting lyrics, charting the highs and lows of trying to survive within an increasingly dog-eat-dog music industry.

Fury was released on Monday.

 

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