ALBUM - ROLLING STONE issue #601 June 2002
SYDNEY QUARTET DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY FIT.
Shamen's Ride are a four piece from Sydney who
conjure up memories of the Seattle sound. Alice
in Chains, Pearl Jam and particularly the monster
size rythms of Badmotorfinger-era Soundgarden are
memories that came flooding back when listening to
Shamen's Rides' groove-ladden power rock. Heavy
on the riffing distortion, thier best tracks ("Parachute","The Lane") cause massive tremmors
by carving out a groove you'd wish they'd play
till the batteries in their fx pedals run down.
But an overwelming desire to blanket the songs
with vocal histronics blurs the power, making
their sound too raw for the mainstream and too
cliched for the underground.
David Olivetti
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LIVE - DRUM MEDIA - issue # 598 14th May 2002
Venue: Excelsior Hotel, Sydney
Date: 26th April 2002
Soundgarden. Now they were a band. I wonder where that perticular band's back catalogue sits in Shamen's Ride collection? My advice is to these very talented bunch of musos is to relegate it. Never to be heard again.
There's no denying they do it well. Suitably dirty and clean. Tight. At times fucking huge. The frontdude's got a killer voice, backed by a band that clearly know their chops.
They know how to write a song. They demonstrated that. I'd be less pissed of if they were shit. A few songs in they pulled out an accoustic, announcing they were going to do something different. And it was. It sounded just like Creed, who sound like...
Of course they can spit on me lyin' in the gutter while they make millions. Why not?
Steve Anderson
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