Graveyard

So a month or so a go i was looking through Monorail for some new music and i came across a cd with a sticker on it which read "For fans of Led Zeppelin". The band where Graveyard and the album Hisingen Blues, my first reaction to this sticker was what a desperate attempted to get people to buy their album, it felt like too much of a "please buy me sign" so i checked out the name of the band and quickly moved on.

later that week however i was messing about online and thought why not check out that band and see if they really where up to much, or did they fall in with the millions of other throwback bands, who just cause they don't fall into the modern fold with electro synth running along a indie beat that they can try and call on the retro classic rock card. Many bands have tried the sound like Zeppelin trick and when you check them out, they are just some pish try hard, it makes you sceptical about and stickers like this, but to my pleasure Graveyard are the exception.

From the moment the video for Hisingen Blues starts you feel that you are in for the real deal, the grainy black and white low lighting of the video really makes you think that this was shot back in the late 60s, for a moment i wondered if this band really are current or not. From Zeppelin to Black Sabbath and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Graveyard certainly let you hear their influences but still pull it all off without sounding dated. They go from from mellow blues of "Uncomfortably Numb" to the heavy rock of "Hisingen Blues" to just a good old classic rock groove of "RSS".
Hisingen Blues has certainly been my album of 2011 so far and and i will be keepig a close eye on the band, hopefully they will be heading to Glasgow soon enough.

http://www.myspace.com/graveyardsongs