THE MILWAUKEES: Angel With A Knife CD Recommended if you like Foo Fighters, Sunny Day Real Estate

Description

The Milwaukees play with the kind of anguish that you’d find on any ’90s alternative band’s album, yet there’s a lucid songwriting thread that puts this New Jersey quartet in a classic rock slot. Such a dichotomy comprises interesting compositions, like the driving yet un-noisy “Lighthouse Signals”, sounding like a glimmering, stripped down version of Quicksand. Despite the short length of Angel with a Knife, these five tracks are good indicators that this outfit has a lot more solid songs full of well-directed angst left in its arsenal. Tracks: Angel With A Knife / Lighthouse signals / Drive Into The Ocean / Academy Awards / When They Attack (acoustic version rerecording. Song originally appeared at the “Missile Command” album]