22-20s - '22 Days' (Heavenly)
5/5
By: Kari Wynn
Every once in awhile, a song comes around so full of musical venom, so strung-and-hung out to dry with its colossal rock-n-roll motherf**ker spirit, it makes you stop and stare in disbelief at your decrepit stereo. It should come as no surprise that the agitators of the phenomena this week are none other than the 22-20's - a band so full of rock they might be mistaken for a quarry.
A soon-to-be-classic (we can but hope) anthem of boy-loses-girl-so-now-boy-hates-girl, '22 Days' careens into a downward spiral of angst-fuelled self-loathing brought on by nothing less than a heart splattered carelessly to hell and the anguish of having a memory (and wishing desperately you didn't). Punctuate this with a 10-foot wall of shrieking guitars so gloriously dissonant, emotionally unstable and drunk with anger they feel like they're about to topple over and drag you down with it any second, and drums that hammered down two litres of bourbon straight. Magnificently sloppy but surprisingly coherent. Bourbon and a bad woman will do that to you.
Go to hell with the 22-20's, boys and girls. It's a kick-arse ride.
Artists in this article: 22-20s
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