Review: The Reigning Sound

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The Reigning Sound
“Too Much Guitar”
(In The Red)

This fiery garage band is the current project led by Greg Cartwright (The Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers). This album runs a spectrum from raucous explosion (“We Repel Each Other”) to soul-on-fire (“Your Love is a Fine Thing”) to psychedelic single in the Arthur Lee tradition (“Is a Fine Thing”). And that is all in the first three tracks! Altogether this is much harder rocking album than the previous Time Bomb High School. That much is on purpose and underscored by the album’s very title. Too Much Guitar is a garage rock classic up their with your favorite albums by 13th Floor Elevators or The Seeds.