{"id":8510,"date":"2025-03-14T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:37:43","slug":"the-starvations-get-well-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/the-starvations-get-well-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Starvations <br>Get Well Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/starvations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8516 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/starvations.jpg\" alt=\"The Starvations, Get Well Soon\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/starvations.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/starvations-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>The early 2000s may very well end up being remembered as a particularly fertile musical period. After the grunge dust of the \u201890s had finally settled and then been replaced by post-rock and electronica, rock &amp; roll was once again allowed to flourish during the decade, with The Strokes, The White Stripes, et al. ushering in a new era of so-called garage rock. Of course, there had never ceased to be bands making dirty rock records, but with the sound suddenly en vogue, there was no shortage of great records favoring those greasy guitar sounds.<\/p>\n<p>One band from the era who seems criminally overlooked is The Starvations, a ragtag Los Angeles quintet that released three full-lengths between 1995 and 2005 before moving on to other things. (Singer Gabriel Hart penned a novel in addition to forming the Jail Weddings.) The band\u2019s second album, <i>Get Well Soon<\/i>, which was originally released in 2003 and was just issued digitally for the first time by Permanent Teeth Records, was a high watermark not only for the band, but for the era and an album that still sounds incredibly vital.<\/p>\n<p>While the record channels some of the same garage undertones\u2014and no doubt a few of the same influences\u2014as those of the band\u2019s contemporaries, it favors a careening cadence, always an inch away from going off the rails, over more stylized attacks. Indeed, this is a record soaked with blood and sweat, not major label money. It very much embodies the LA environs in which it was made, being equal parts Bukowski folklore, Hollywood noir, and Gun Club punk-blues. Indeed, it\u2019s particularly hard not to hear Jeffrey Lee Pierce\u2019s ghost haunting the slide-tinged stomp of album opener \u201cThis Is What You Wanted\u201d or the explosive death rattle of \u201cOh Deputy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the record, Hart\u2019s songwriting has more backwoods grit than any city-slicker should possess, so much so that when he sings of heaven and hell, you can\u2019t help but believe he\u2019s caught glimpses of both. Meanwhile his cohorts\u2014bassist Jean-Paul Garnier, guitarist Ryan Hertz, accordionist\/pianist Vanessa Gonzalez, and drummer Ian Harrower\u2014swing expertly behind his yowled aphorisms, matching his salty tales of woes with both reckless abandon and precision where needed. <i>Get Well Soon<\/i> still sounds as wild and woolly as the day it was born and is something that can\u2019t be forgotten once heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early 2000s may very well end up being remembered as a particularly fertile musical period. 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