Marcel Winatschek

Band of Skulls

Heavy blues rock with no apology for the blues part. Band of Skulls hit a sound that feels exactly as good as it should—guitars thick as tar, drums like something collapsing in slow motion. There’s no restraint here, no clever arrangement trying to prove something. Just the weight of it. Sweet Sour captures that pull, the push and drag of wanting something you know will hurt, the kind of wanting that doesn’t care if it makes sense. They move through it like they’ve lived there for years.