When you’re 21 your world is shaped by the experiences that you had while growing up. Unfortunately some of us miss out o these awesome pop culture movements but nonetheless will sooner or later resurrect them and claim them as our own.
First there was Nintendo
The cardboard sensation- POGs
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Savage Garden.
The resurrection of the Yo-Yo.
It’s quite obvious by now that I have left out some major turning points in a late 80’s and 90’s child’s life such as the boy band era, and even more notably Maroon 5 and their ridiculous popularity only to be coupled with the joke- “I heard you liked shitty music so I bought you this Maroon 5 CD.” It’s easy to look back now and tell yourself that you would have done things differently, but one of my only regrets as a child was not giving classic rock the warm place in my heart that it deserved.
As of late I have stumbled upon a great band from Sweden that brings back the beautiful art of classic rock. This is not a shitty cover band or people who live in the past. These are individuals that express a newly rediscovered genre that is classic rock among mainstream listeners.
Graveyard is a refreshing taste of old that one cannot get from anything that is on the popular list of Hype Machine or even many blogs that are publicly noted as “good” and “accurate”. The raw recordings that their self-titled LP possess only add to the raw-uncut feel that their music gives off. When listening you cannot help but be moved to a new generation and appreciate this band’s talent. Good luck stumbling upon bands like this with Pitchfork’s fucked up album scales and their pretentious writers who’s reviews depend on how well their relationship with their father is going. It’s unfortunate that bands like this are few and far between but when we find one we must cherish it. SO DO IT.
