Bucket and Rich Webb & The Liars Reviewed
Bucket – Good Intentions
There are a million documentaries nowadays about rock n’ roll bands, telling stories about their most famous releases. And I can only imagine and assume that whenever a production company begins this kind of project, they interview the band members and ask: “So, what problems were you going through at the time of making the music?”
If all of the band members just shake their heads and tell them that, for the most part, and for all that they can recall, things were fine, the producers politely tell them that they have other projects on which to work.
It may sound cynical, but I think I speak for everyone when I say that we rock listeners assume and hope that our favourite bands go through some messy personal issues when writing and recording their tunes.
Bucket, a band inspired in equal measure by noisy, American indie-rock of the late 1980s and by soft, alt-country, bring the chaos, the drama and the eventual release with the single “Good Intentions.” It’s a song about knowing where the road should go, but not having the power to make the best of those coordinates. It’s an attention-grabbing noise fest of a song.
Rich Webb & The Liars – Peace With Bombs (No No No)
Last week, I was lucky to spend a day in the utterly gorgeous city of Bamberg out in Franconia. This is an ancient Bavarian city. It’s flooded with tourists every day. They don’t just come to it for the world-famous beer and white asparagus. They come here because of how well preserved it is, how much history it holds and because of the fact that the Allies somehow forgot to bomb it eighty years ago.
Bombs stop wars every time, right? And which wars were they supposed to stop first? Rock n’ roll isn’t much for violence or for thinking it can achieve anything. And as an art form, it hasn’t been one for discriminating, or for encouraging tribalism. By the power of rock n’ roll, let’s stop all future bombing campaigns.
It’s time for a desperate call! Rich Webb & The Liars’ “Peace With Bombs (No No No)” is a protest song about the insanity of modern warfare. It’s a song about all the military equipment manufacturers getting richer off the blood of others. These are words that we can still say freely, but who knows for how long? Rich Webb & The Liars are putting their necks on the line. Let not one more bomb fall anywhere in the name of peace!
