{"id":3037,"date":"2015-02-25T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2015-03-06T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T17:23:53","slug":"screaming-females-rose-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/screaming-females-rose-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Screaming Females <br>Rose Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/screaming_females-rose_mountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3038\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/screaming_females-rose_mountain.jpg\" alt=\"Screaming Females, Rose Mountain\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/screaming_females-rose_mountain.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/screaming_females-rose_mountain-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Hard rock died some time ago, and now it\u2019s just decaying. It\u2019s a style that\u2019s practiced by bands that go to Rock on the Range or make cameos on Spike TV shows. Amongst the rubbish, however, there\u2019s one New Brunswick, New Jersey\u2013based, hard rock\u2013leaning trio that stands out: Screaming Females. This can largely be attributed to frontwoman Marissa Paternoster, who has enough talent and conviction in her guitar playing and voice that it seems inordinate to the genre\u2019s precedence. However, it could be that accomplishment got the best of Screaming Females, because each song that makes up the band\u2019s latest, <i>Rose Mountain<\/i> (Don Giovanni Records), falls short of fulfilling whatever potential it exhibits. The one exception and most prominent highlight is \u201cWishing Well,\u201d the first cut shared ahead of the album\u2019s release. Described by Paternoster as the band\u2019s first \u201cfamily-friendly\u201d song, it\u2019s a clear contender for best-of lists, while the rest of the album proves detached and unstapled.<\/p>\n<p>The overarching issue with <i>Rose Mountain<\/i> is its constant imbalance, playing out like a jam session brainstorm that never entirely comes to fruition. As exemplified on the title track and \u201cRipe,\u201d there are foot-stomping, majestic metal riffs reminiscent of Tool and Ozzy\u2014only slit haphazardly with some Nirvana-esque verses. Then there\u2019s the songs that might\u2019ve killed 20 years ago, as they contain remnants of Smashing Pumpkins (\u201cBroken Neck\u201d), Alanis Morissette (\u201cHopeless\u201d), or at best, Jane\u2019s Addiction or a less metallic Dinosaur Jr. (\u201cTriumph\u201d) as source material. Screaming Females are still very much worth hearing and indeed may be a necessary, revitalizing listen for those who dig the genre. If only for \u201cWishing Well\u201d or the gnarly solo on album-closer \u201cCriminal Image,\u201d <i>Rose Mountain\u2019s<\/i> peculiar assembly of rock is worth hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard rock died some time ago, and now it\u2019s just decaying. 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