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Despite all their references being established and well-knownperformers of years past, their music is hard to shove aside as justrip-off material or more-of-the-same rock music. 25 Suaves obviouslylove what they do and their newest record is a blast to play at highlevels and head bang with. "Turn Up the Music" opens the record likethe mission statement every boy and girl has ever dreamed up whilelistening to their favorite guitarists, vocalists, and drummers: "Mylife is making rock / from underground / I pray my life to have time /to make this sound / Loud, I want it Loud." Images of beer spillingeverywhere and technicolor mohawks spring immediately to mind andbefore long the molasses-thick guitars and abused drums turn intohypnotic layers of rock holiness, dedicated to the destruction of everything established... to hell with the details. With titles like "Born Dead" and "Let it Burn," the thematic elements of I Want it Loudare right on the sleeve and the music doesn't even remotely fail tolive up to those teenage concepts. Maybe 25 Suaves are playing on somerather immature impulses and all that other nonsense, but in that waythere is absolutely nothing hindering their thunderous sound: noweighty concepts or overly complex rhythms and riffs overshadow theeffect that the music has. Each song is completely energizing andworthy of broken chairs, bruised bodies, and police officers raidingunderage drinkers in their best friend's uncle's basement. Repeatedlistens don't actually inhibit the record from being any more fun,either. Playing it in the car, at home, while cooking dinner, and whilebeing alone and secretly rocking out like I was part of the band haveall shown I Want it Loud to be an insanely and confoundinglyexcellent record through and through. All of these songs should soundstandard and absolutely boring with their repetitive and imitativesound, but all the power and recklessness this album harbors onlyreminds me why I was so addicted to rock n' roll in the first place.
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