​Cave Flowers (from the album Western Spectre

​Cave Flowers (from the album Western Spectre

​Cave Flowers (from the album Western Spectre available on Hard Bark Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Cave Flowers have nailed the casual Garage Rock sound and the sentimental ballad. Their sophomore effort is a little bit of both, Western Spectre is delivered with a care-free looseness, those ballads scoring a slow dance and the Rockers packed for your road-trip and/or backyard party. It’s a great, Paul Westerberg (The Replacements)-style vibe.  
They dig into early 70’s Rolling Stones on the opener “Garbage and Gold”, a rambling guitar riff that harkens to that aforementioned looseness. It’s also got a killer bar-room piano and a guitar solo perfect for the song. Cave Flowers continue to alter between up-beat Rockers and slowed-down weepers for the first half of the record. Cuts like “Good Love” and “Invisible Tonight” are both sweet and sentimental, the latter delivering larger riffs between verses.  They shine, however, on the lazy Rockers. “Leave Your Light On” has a reverb overtone with a Psychedelic touch as an echoey, trippy guitar fills all of “Heart of Hearts”. “Good Luck Charm” while both dramatic and beautiful, treads into dreamy jam territory clocking in over five minutes. “Living Like a Rodeo” has both elements of Indie and Classic Southern Rock, and the album closer in “Old Sunglasses” is a dreamy lullaby.
The Rock and ballads are accentuated by Andy McAllister’s rough vocal delivery, driven by this stacked band, who keep an ear to Surf Rock and Cosmic Country, giving those touches to every song. (by Bryant Liggett)
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