Brain Cycles

Please, please, there are more references for this type of music than the white stripes (overrrated) and the black keys(great yet sort of hipsterish)... look into your parents' record collection and turn on, tune in, trip out...Radio Moscow are great, just great, and they certainly made my day today: the guitar player is outstanding, and it's a crying shame that he seems to be a teenager born into the myspace/iPod generation. no fault of his, certainly... man, the kid can play. watch out, he might just become a true legend very soon, against all odds!they truly sound old, bluesy, jammy, excellent. dear kids, ever heard of grand funk, cactus,captain beyond, hendrix, budgie, buddy guy,robert johnson,mountain, blue cheer?that's were it all began, and this band is the newest keeper of the flame. oh, yes... i was born in the early seventies and got hooked on rock at a very early age. back then, around 1980, the big thing was Kiss, at least in Mexico and other parts of the world. Kiss were as big as Disneyland, and certainly as commercial and capitalist, but they played heavy rock and were always mentioning their influences. so I decided to check those influences out, and guess what? all those other older bands were better... and heavier. and that research gave me a historical perspective which I still cherish. though I wouldn't like to be your dad, I will advise you, as an older friend and rocknrollobsessive,to go out, turn off the computer for a minute and search for an used record store. ask for 60's/70's heavy rock; steal the albums if you have to. go home, or to your nearest mountain, and hide for a few weeks. throw the cell phone away- you're not gonna need it at all. yes, become a nerd,a hippie, a freak, a cast-out, but don't think about what you're doing as if you were about to submerge in a post-modern videgame full of guitars! now, close your eyes, press play on that portable turntable you stole from grandma- and listen... just as I'm sure this kid Parker Grigg did. as we all need to do to chill out and belive in rocknroll again, this dying artform that succumbed to its own addiction to fame and fortune, the American way...Radio Moscow's music doesn't sound new, and their songs are not particularly original, but, oh devil, do they ROCK!Listen.However,wanna know something? this decade has brought many good bands along, bands maybe as good as the elders. check em out if you feel too young to even consider the last decade. i'll name a few: quest for fire, mammatus,witchcraft,ancestors,weird owl, jucifer (before they went all black metal),assemble head in sunburst sound, entrance, plus the 'recent'classics, you know, mudhoney, kyuss, early monster magnet, the MASTERS of reality, kyuss, cathedral, pentagram..File along with johnny winter, clapton, robin trower,frank marino, jimi, robert johnson,derringer, randy holden... maybe even steve hillage and uli jon roth... and, is it just me or are they using a guitar effect on a solo that is certainly reminiscent of stuff done by the very, very, very obscure Samuel Prody?Oh, and did I mention that Grigg plays all drums and percussion, too? in case you're wondering, at times he does resemble Carmine Appice, no kidding.This music feels like getting your soul back again. cheers!

A true 5 star album. These guys are the real deal ! I've been listening to this for days now and it does not disappoint. I'm a 57 YO rocker, a music aficionado with a gigantic music collection and a ton of audio equipment to put it through its paces. So I feel highly qualified to write honest reviews and I know talent when I hear it. These guys got a big heapin' helping of influence from Jimi Hendrix and Cream. Their sound is heavy, hard psychedelic blues circa 1970. As I listen I here the sounds reminiscent of Ten Years After, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, UFO, Traffic, Deep Purple, Robin Trower, Soundgarden and Back Door Slam. Others do fine song by song reviews here, so no need to repeat. So......hopefully you get an idea of what this band sounds like with all the aforementioned bands. They sound like all of them, yet they sound like none of them. They have a refined yet raw garage band sound. Powerful, tight songs with plenty of interesting jamming along the way. Good Stuff. Check them out.

This album from Radio Moscow is definitely a much better offering than their first release. The two man band has a White Stripes feel to it because of the vocals, but less commercial. They provide a 70's psychedelic/blues sound with excellent guitar work, I mean amazing guitar work from Parker Griggs who also handles vocals and percussion. Zach Anderson lets loose with a grinding bass on all tracks.This takes me back to my college days in the 70's when we would get together with friends on a Friday night to party down and spin some tunes. The music fits the period,similar to Cream, Blue Cheer, Graveyard, Black Sabbath, Ten Years After, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, and Captain Beyond to name a few.I read this comparison that fits the profile:"Most of the album actually feels like the LSD-induced blur which typifies the era it is trying to emulate. Guitar riffs blur into one another, vocals are definitely interchangeable, and you find yourself at the end of the 12 songs wondering what to do with yourself. - The Edge"Like I said, shades of the 70's, party down and forget about it!!! Amazing, brings back good memories.

This is one of the best rock records in the last 20 years. Seriously great band and this is their best album. The starburst versions are awesome

Great Jams

This album blows me away every time I put it on. Friend of mind turned me on to this band, and I was instantly hooked. The band sounds like they belong in the 70''s and thats a good thing. You can hear the influence of Hendrix on several of the tacks. 250 miles and the song Brain Cycles are my favorite. Brain cycles is an instrunemtal track that shows just how hard this band can rock! And 250 miles is a great tune, that starts slow, then punches you in the gut with the amazing solo at the end.

No band has ever reminded me more of the Jimi Hendrix Experience as Moscow does. The lead guitars are outstanding and they are complemented by articulate and aggressive drumming both performed by Parker Griggs. The percussive stokes and ping-pong effects in "Hold On Me" are so Hendrix-like it's incredible. The whole album is filled with great blues structured songs and face melting guitar solos.

I love all the songs on this CD, and the guitar is awesome.

Excelente álbum 👌 bien empacado, aunque llegó con detalles mínimos (seguramente ya estaba así antes del envío, ya que el empaque estaba en perfecto estado). Aún así vale la pena comprar con este vendedor.

Sehr starkes Album.

Muy bueno

great record !

Great bluesy stoner album, bought this after listening to Blues Pills.