Damnwells - Bastards Of The Beat CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums Damnwells - Bastards of the Beat Damnwells Bastards of the Beat     Crisp, cutting pop songs that maintain a late-period Replacements-worthy sense of melody and structure. More good news is that the Damnwells have a lot going on in the songwriting department. They're at their best with slightly bitter, wearily sarcastic tunes and when they toss some alt country into the mix. Based in Brooklyn, the Damnwells are about as far from the Midwest as they can be, yet their emotional pop-rock is sonically rustbelt -- where the husks of empty factories look almost pretty in the fading light. With spare Americana instrumentation added here and there to an organic guitar-bass-drums sound, the Damnwells brood in the no longer-imaginary place where Pete Yorn, the Goo Read More Goo Dolls and drummer Steven Terry's old band, Whiskeytown, all hang out. Bastards of the Beat opens with a propulsive, sloppy barroom rocker with a vocal hook that's pure drunken Westerberg. Later the Damnwells steer toward Replacements-worthy goose-bump pop with singer-songwriter frontman Alex Dezen sounding delicately wounded and utterly real throughout. Throbbing psychedelic guitar opens "Sleepsinging" -- a haunting indictment of music business sharks, "Electric Harmony" sets a Beatlesque melody to a wistful waltz, and the dark "Star/Fool" out-pretties Petty's "Last Dance With Mary Jane" with plenty of dramatic white space and the chilling repeated threat/promise "I'm coming back for you." TODD SPENCER (April 5, 2004) Damnwells Records and CDs: Bastards Of The Beat Pmr + 1

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