it is bad form and lazy writing to start a review with "imagine a cross between Band X and Artist Y and you end up with Band Z". and but so, imagine a cross between The Strokes and Hamilton Leithauser, add lots of stimulants, and crank it out fast and loud, and you get Balkans. featuring one of the great names in music history, Woodbury Shortridge, on bass and the energetic Frankie Broyles (later of Deerhunter), Balkans was another of those one album and done acts who parlayed tons of ... read more
these guys are great but they sound like the precursor to every annoying garage punk band that would blow up on tik tok 10 years later. As a massive Strokes fan, I cannot complain though. I would've loved to see where they could have taken their sound on a follow-up. Regardless, a good bunch of jams!
| 1 | Edita V 2:49 | |
| 2 | I Can't Compete 2:48 | |
| 3 | Zebra Print 2:07 | |
| 4 | Dressed in Black 3:00 | |
| 5 | Black Swan 3:59 | |
| 6 | Troubled and Done 3:44 | |
| 7 | Flowers Everywhere 4:06 | |
| 8 | Let You Have It 2:46 | |
| 9 | Georganne 4:43 | |
| 10 | Violent Girls 2:07 |