King Garbage, with their contemporary take on American Soul,
return with a new album, ‘Heavy Metal Greasy Love’, released
via Ipecac Recordings.
Long-time friends and GRAMMY Award-nominated producers
Zach Cooper and Vic Dimotsis have quietly impacted pop, R&B
and hip-hop with production credits for everyone from The
Weeknd and SZA to Ellie Goulding, Gallant and Billy Porter.
In 2021, Vic and Zach co-wrote ‘Sing’ for Jon Batiste’s ‘We Are’.
It gathered eight GRAMMY Award nominations, including Album
Of The Year. They also penned ‘Sweeter’ (featuring Terrace
Martin) on Leon Bridges’ ‘Gold-Diggers Sound’, which notched
a GRAMMY nod in the category of Best R&B Album.
It’s a taste of retro without being a reproduction. The music is
crispy, searing, spacious, sandy and welded with perfect dimes
at the seams.
Breaking from the ‘rough and ruddy’ vibe of their first record,
Make It Sweat’, King Garbage incorporated a rock ‘n’ roll spirit
within this soul sphere. They teased the album with ‘Piper’ and
Peanut Butter Kisses’ before revealing the single ‘Busy On A
Saturday Night’. On the track, vocals hum barely above a
whisper as clean guitar wraps around horns before the high
register hook takes hold. It ends on a crescendo straight out of
a Sixties cop show.
Bass-y piano revs up ‘Monster Truck’, which Zach calls
“somewhere between musical theater and classic rock.”
Meanwhile, ‘Checkmate’ moves ice cold vocals and boisterous
horns across the board. Saxophone, flute, and clarinet
soundtrack a ‘Fargo-like tale’ on ‘Snow’, unfolding “like what a
big band should play in a strip club.” In the end, ‘Heavy Metal
Greasy Love’ is as smooth as King Garbage are.
For fans of The Black Pumas, Alabama Shakes, Daptone
Records.
Available on Coke Bottle clear green vinyl.
