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\"Starcrawler\"<\/a>Starcrawler went straight from high school to a record deal in an era when kids their age play rock star video games and there no longer are record deals. This rapid upward mobility was achieved thanks to family support that was not limited to buying strings or turning the garage into a rehearsal pad.<\/p>\n

Vocalist Arrow de Wilde\u2019s grandfather Jerry took iconic photographs in the \u201860s (that shot of Jimi Hendrix dousing his flaming Strat with lighter fluid was his). Her mother Autumn was born in Woodstock and continued the family tradition by shooting the likes of The White Stripes and Beck, directing music videos for artists such as Spoon and Death Cab For Cutie, and writing a book about Elliot Smith. Her dad Aaron drummed with Smith, as well as Father John Misty, Ariel Pink, and his own band, Beachwood Sparks.<\/p>\n

If that wasn\u2019t enough, Ryan Adams (a friend of mom) produced the band\u2019s eponymous debut, and Elton John premiered the single \u201cAnts\u201d that preceded the album\u2019s release on his Beats 1 radio show, Rocket Hour<\/i>, last November. Oh, and Dave Grohl personally invited them to play the CalJam he curated. The Los Angeles\u2013based band is so connected, it\u2019s almost embarrassing.<\/p>\n

As much as all of this makes Starcrawler easy to dismiss, the band proves much harder to ignore.<\/p>\n

Evidently, they\u2019re difficult to describe as well. Articles gushing about the young group refer to them as \u201cstoner metal,\u201d \u201chair metal,\u201d \u201c\u201970s glam,\u201d \u201cpunk\u201d and \u201cgrunge.\u201d The confusion is likely because at any given time Starcrawler can be any of those things.<\/p>\n

The aforementioned \u201cAnts\u201d (not on the album) is fuzzed out Detroit proto-punk gone glam, with Arrow playing the part of Suzie Quatro cum Iggy Pop. The video, filmed at The Echo in their home base of Echo Park, sees the singer gyrating out of a straightjacket with fake blood pouring from her mouth. \u201cI got ants in my home, I got ants in my bones,\u201d she sings while flipping out exactly like someone with ants in their bones likely would.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing exactly like that on Starcrawler<\/i> (Rough Trade Records), though that isn\u2019t for a lack of trying. The band seems willing to give anything a go as long as it rocks sufficiently. Bassist Tim Franco takes the lead on \u201cLove\u2019s Gone Again,\u201d which sounds like an \u201880s Sunset Strip band doing their best Runaways impression. \u201cDifferent Angles\u201d is Kiss gone punk rock. \u201cI Love LA\u201d is grunge fun, with drummer Austin Smith driving the track with surprising agility and economy. \u201cFull of Pride\u201d sounds like a slowed-down, street-metal \u201cCannonball.\u201d It\u2019s not hard to see L7 doing \u201cLet Her Be,\u201d and album closer, \u201cWhat I Want,\u201d is the kind of slow and sleazy a stripper could love.\u2028\u2028Mentioning an adult entertainer in a review of an album by a bunch of teenagers might be gauche if it wasn\u2019t for \u201cPussy Tower.\u201d Behind a decadent bluesy New York Dolls swagger, guitarist Henri Cash and de Wilde trade lines about the wonders of head (not the one on their shoulders). This ain\u2019t your father\u2019s indie rock band. Or theirs, for that matter.<\/p>\n

It would be easy to be cynical, write Starcrawler off as the sum of their iPhones\u2019 contacts, and complain that their inability to lock into a sound is detrimental. But the album confounds such thinking by throwing back to an age before irony. The disjointed nature of the 10 songs is a product of their enthusiasm for the almighty riff in all its forms; the sloppiness part and parcel of the recklessness of youth is a feature, not a bug. If rock & roll is dead, nobody told these kids\u2014and they probably wouldn\u2019t listen anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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