18th October 2009

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Imaad Wasif - Return to You
The Voidist (Tee Pee)

Opening for Raconteurs/Kills supergroup Dead Weather this fall, Imaad Wasif’s pushing his new debut record.  You might know Wasif from the recent Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, or Lou Barlow’s latest solo thang.  The stuff on this record is, I would say, closer to the latter than the former, and also quite reminiscent at times of Chris Goss’ Masters of Reality.

That means sometimes acoustic, sometimes fuzzed out desert rock, and maybe a bit of blues thrown in, but not that much.  Stand out tracks on the record are “Our Skulls,” which starts out softly acoustic, and about halfway through becomes one of those stoner rock riff-machines; “Daughter of Fire,” which, with jangly, pedaling acoustic guitars and reverbed electrics sounds like it could be one of those Led Zeppelin songs about hobbits; and “Her Sorcery,” which, on first listen, lead me to believe it would be the wussy folk song on the record, but actually has some interesting chord progressions, and gets pretty heavy the further on it goes.  Perhaps the weirdest track is “Return to You,” which you can find above.  It’s a darker piece, with cool watery effects on the vocals.

The other cuts on this could use a bit more contrast, I think.  But I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy developed a following, soon.  So I suppose you might want to get in on this now, before everyone else ruins it.

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