CATTAIL BREW

Imagine if you could take a large cooking pot and add some Lynard Skynard, The Rolling Stones a touch of Black Stone Cherry and a wee dash of Waysted. What you would cook up would be a special brew and that brew would be Cattail Brew.

This album has been in the making in various formats and guises for around 5 years but its been worth the wait. The sound is bluesy southern rock, combined with the unmistakable sound of Fin on vocals, you end up with a fun catchy blast of an album.

The songs are full of big crunching riffs and the grizzly Scottish tones of Fin sit perfectly within the songs. The opening two tracks really set the tone with huge guitars and melodies. We have a blues feel running through some tracks as well and ‘Fishbowl Blues’ is a highlight sounding like the Stones on steroids.

Steve Theados guitar work is superb throughout with some ear splitting solo work coupled with slide guitar on songs like ‘Fools Gold’ and the cover of Tommy Bolin's ‘Jump Back’.

Highlight of the album for me though is the moody and darker ‘Glitter’. This has Fin at his best and the track builds slowly to a thunderous crescendo and blistering Theado solo.

The band are completed by Keith Pickens on drums, plus Snowblynd bassist Joe Viers and have a few gigs lined up in the states soon but lets hope that we can have the chance to enjoy a Brew on this side of the pond sooner rather than later.

AW