Labels: Tee Pee – This Charming Man
Review by: Alex Deller
To fully appreciate this you probably need to wind your brain back some and pretend you know what it was like to live in 1970. Flares. Acid. Much-pawed Dennis Wheatley novels strewn hither and thither. The last parched wisps of hippiedom hanging in the air like a bad smell. The first Black Sabbath album and, maybe, the first two songs on the first Frijid Pink LP as well. Whether or not Kadavar remember these hazy days is, frankly, doubtful, but with their debut LP they’ve at least conjured them pretty damn admirably, their self-titled album a rather glorious mix of stringy, doom-laden riffs, Wah-Wah’d blues licks and spaced-out croons birthed straight from the sinuses. It’s a sound as old as the hills and derivative as all heck to be sure, but, sheesh, when it’s done as well as this who the hell’s complaining?