VietNam - S/T (Kemado)
Text: Phil Hebblethwaite
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Outta Brooklyn and hyped. I know, another one. But VietNam don’t do scratchy art punk for hipsters.
The clue’s in their name: makes you think of classic rock and that’s the trench they dig – it’s old-fashioned, analogue-recorded stuff that plays well as an album and it’s mostly very good.
The better songs are the raucous, horn-driven ones. Gentler, country-fried numbers suffer.
