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The Icarus Line - Slave Vows

Review by J.R. Moores

Easily the finest guitar album The Icarus Line have produced since Aaron North precariously sprinted across a row of trembling amps to crash out the window and join Nine Inch Nails in 2005.»

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Harking back to the fury of Mono, the fire of Pennance Soiree and dragging the swagger out of the Black Lives / Wild Life albums, "Slave Vows" is quite simply a fearsome vitriolic rock and roll outpouring that starts, and never lets up for every 45 minutes of Stoogian styled glory. Evoking Funhouse, Everything Went Black, Goats Head Soup and Maggotbrain in one fell swoop, it could be said that the Icarus Line have finally made the album they set out on making at the start of their career. This album also features the best rhythm section the band have had, with new drummer Ben Hallett and original bassist Lance Arnao nailing it.underpinning the white hot guitar flow from singer/leader Joe Cardamone.
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