Gypsyhawk – Revelry and Resilience
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Gypsyhawk is one of those bands that I immediately latched on to upon hearing for the first time. There is something comfortably familiar yet modern about their sound. As a whole, Gypsyhawk encapsulates everything I love about hard rock music and their current album Revelry and Resilience just solidifies that fact for me. Great, soulful vocals, amazing production and songs full of fat, twin harmony guitarist and a groove that will have you bobbing your head, pumping your fist or a bit of both at the same time. “Overloaded” opens the album with a bombastic blow to the dome as lead singer/bassist Eric Harris unleashes his Phil Lynott inspired vocals with an attitude that has you thinking that running into this guy in an alley might not be a good thing.
The arena rock groove of “The Fields” has an intro that just builds this level of tension before resolving right into the opening chorus full of those sweet, twin harmony guitars courtesy of guitarists Erik “Ron Houser” Kluiber and Andrew Packer. These guys play off of each other with almost a telepathic precision while Harris holds the groove down with one of the best bass guitar tones I’ve heard in a long, long time in this kind of music. “The Hedgeking” has Gypysyhawk exposing their inner dorkdom in this facemelting homage to the epic Game of Thrones novel while “Frostwyrm” almost displays a tad bit of pop sensibility with one of the catchiest verse/chorus combos I’ve heard from these guys.
Revelry and Resilience is without a doubt one of my favorite albums of 2012 and I would be hard pressed to say that there is a single bad song on it. Like with any great album, some songs are better than others but all in all, this is a really fun and sonically face melting platter of hard edged rock n’ roll. It’s a really fun listen and it’s an album that evokes all kinds of emotions. Revelry and Resilience is the kind of album should totally appeal to anyone who likes the vibe of gritty, rock n’ roll that makes you want to drink beer with your friends, give and receive lots of bro hugs while totally ready to bust some heads if needed. As long as there will be young dudes throwing drunken parties with their friends while their parents are out of town, Gypsyhawk will be there to give them the soundtrack. They just don’t know it yet.
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