With a breakthrough 12-track Seattle rock album, โPeggy Lee,โ M.Krebs starts its composed and atmospheric introductory track, โJohn Prine,โ a grungy shoegaze track engulfed with acoustic guitar progressively strumming as the gnarly, broken voice screams out.
The background music is simplistic and atmospheric in its predictable manner. And itโs amazing how that simplicity helps the screeching voice etch its words into our brains so easily. Louder instrumentals couldnโt have achieved this hypnotic effect.
In the next track, we are brought to โPeggy Lee,โ the titular album track going by the album title. Sometimes, the runner-up says more than the intro. We are brought to an aged, shaky, and tender voice dictating phrases and telling us a story as though it were a theater. Behind the voice is a tender and sweet guitar sound and repetitive drumming. With โCalm the Beast,โ we find M.Krebs riding into R&B and soul music. Disregarding genres, the band mixes them all confidently into a rock album.
The song that almost stands out like an odd one out, with more of a singing paralleling its contents, is โDesperate Measures Man,โ with its guitar playing in a slower tempo and a more youthful voice, soaring and belting in a more soulful manner. The showstopper of the album, โSongs in the Keys of Maynard,โ takes us to darker chambers with muffled instrumentals, an almost atmospheric and dark tribal beating of the drums, and the cymbals less pitched beside the usual tirade of the vocalist.
M.Krebs with its debut rock act, โPeggy Lee,โ drowns you in a sea of tirades and processions, engulfing you in garage and grunge rock sounds alongside a shoegaze aesthetic. But thereโs more! Listen to โPeggy Leeโ by M.Krebs to be surprised around every corner!
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Review By: Naomi Joan