Envy On The Coast – Lowcountry 
Envy On The Coast - Lowcountry
The checklist for Lowcountry is as follows: Driven guitar rock, with a smidge of grit, throw in some themes of fornication, alcohol, and financial instability. Make sure you have a few overdrive pedals handy, sing softly through the verses just so when the chorus comes you can belt out some screams. Make it sound like every lyric is a painful twang that comes from the heart and voilà.
Throughout the 90’s mainstream rock was at least good for unleashing some very killer guitar solos. Unfortunately, Envy On The Coast could not present us with a bevy of those solos; there is prominently one on the album coming on the track “Southern Comfort”. The other clichés, you ask? Yes they are still here, including a hidden track after minutes of silence on the last track, and a track of messages left on a phone.
Songs “Made Of Stone” and “Like I Do” serve as refreshing pace changes from the rest of the album. Both songs slow the tempo, with “Made Of Stone” being an acoustic rendition including tambourine. Beyond that there are few variances in this output. Bordering the line of extreme mediocrity. Certainly if straightforward rock with a little edge tickles your fancy, this could be thoroughly enjoyable to your palette.
Some movies fall under the “rent it” instead of the “see it in theater” category. If such a parallel existed in the music realm, this would be it. Nothing to get upset at, yet nothing special. Ideally an infusion of more elements, whether it be instrumental or vocal, would be welcome.
Track List:
1. Death March On Two, Ready?
2. The Devil’s Tongue
3. Head First In The River
4. Puritan Dirt Song
5. Laugh Ourselves To Death
6. The Great American T-shirt Racket
7. Southern Comfort
8. *
9. Like I Do
10. Numb
11. Made Of Stone
12. Clean Of You
wow fun stuff man.