Some Days You Get The Thunder

The Gateway District, “Some Days You Get The Thunder” (It’s Alive, 2011)
I never got that into the Soviettes, but these former members of that group here deliver a set of songs that live up to the ragged greatness of their Minneapolis punk-and-roll predecessors (think Replacements/Hüskers, etc. when they were young and on fire) while sounding totally contemporary. Beer, desperation, romance, the Mississsippi, two girls’ voices intertwining and holding on for dear life until a guitar roars out of the darkness—this is how it’s done, an dit sounds pretty damn great.
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