Wyndrider – Revival

Tennessee and stoner rock so far have been a sweet pair. When Wyndrider’s latest album landed in my promo stack, it moved to the top. Stoner rock sounds, check. From the Tennessee Appalachian mountains, check. Revival, the quartet’s second album, is their first with Electric Valley Records.

Maybe it’s the mixing and mastering, the songs sound muddy, flat. After multiple listens the songs are good. The songs come across as uninspired. Packed with all the signature smoked out influences, Black Sabbath, Clutch, Monster Magnet and Acid King. Revival misses the mark for getting high praise, by this music fan.

The vocals are solid and soulful. A blues rock haze. There are some sweet grooves throughout the seven-song album set. The band does add in musical influences I haven’t heard before. An early Black Sabbath sound, fused with a doomed out Jefferson Airplane comes to mind.

The standout song on the Revival is “Remember the Sabbath”. A band to keep an ear out, there’s musicality without a doubt. Would I see Wyndrider live, definitely.