​Nick Lowe (from the album Love Safari

​Nick Lowe (from the album Love Safari

​Nick Lowe (from the album Love Safari available on Yep Roc Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Los Straightjackets are the perfect backing band. Perfect because they can play just about anything, especially Surf and Garage Rock, or Roots influenced R&B. Thus, putting them in the backing role of a New Wave, Power Pop god who is a soulful dude is that unmatched pairing. And there you have Nick Lowe leading Los Straitjackets on his latest release Love Safari. 
They’re a house band opening with a festive song in “Went to a Party”, Los Straitjackets throwing in jangle and Surf Rock reverb; it’s all so loose and all so tight.  “Love Starvation” is pure Pop served up in super glory, while “A Quiet Place” is a cut where Wolfman Jack’s intro would not be out of place, as its radio ripe from 1958.  There’s Rockabilly via “Tokyo Bay”, a Soul-laden Nick Lowe croon-heavy cut (“Trombone”) and Cocktail Lounge tones on full display in “Different Kind of Blue”.
Nick Lowe has always been Rock’n’Roll cool, not in an outlaw way but in the ‘I’m a solid songwriter and timeless musician’ style. Never a one-trick pony yet also nearly unknown by the Classic Rock crowd, he’s a solid musician that’s both throwback and 21st Century and Indie-awesome. The match-up with Los Straitjackets is takes a Rock band well versed in every style, pairing them with a Singer/Songwriter that’s the same. Digging into this record is a full earful of sounds that represent Rock’n’Roll from 1958 to 2025.  (by Bryant Liggett)
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