Move by Widespread Haze: Album Review

by Gabe Finch October 14, 2022

October 14, 2022

Move by Widespread Haze: Album Review

In the mood for some hip-shakin’? I got the perfect organic-sounding and rock n roll-laden album to get you moving; an hour’s worth of listening to the Widespread Haze’s latest LP ‘Move.’

There are many interesting musical genres represented on this record filled with 15 solid numbers. It kind of feels unreal how the band fuses jams derived from various influences. From the beginning track, there’s an obvious hue of blues, concert grunge, and festival-worthy rock within. The works begin with a warm, swinging guitar that is subdued by vocals laden with rhythmic bluesy mood, occasionally touching falsetto, tracing a lovely wellspring of the psychedelia of the sixties. The band’s self-produced, cross-genre music has stood the test of time because of the timeless quality and extremely gifted skills within each track. With rich, enticing sounds, some of the tracks are a mix of powerful emotion and intoxication, with snippets of wild solos from Matthew Campbell. The entire LP is filled with tunes that are bangers, blessing the world with some truly exceptional songs.

If you’ve got the ears for it, you’d be able to tell that the genre-hopping project Widespread Haze shines through some of Elvis Presley’s style in their music. Evidently what started this circus of madness is a day strumming a six-string axe amid the Evergreens of Southern Oregon, listening to one of Elvis’s albums.