It’s typically impossible to get through listening to a Kingswood song without pulling at least one stank face while nodding appreciatively – talk about riffs of fury!
However this album’s lead single Burning Holes is acoustic, emotional and reflective; a kind of campfire singalong moment (more s’mores, please!) during which Alex Laska and Fergus Linacre’s swoon-inducing vocal harmonies immediately remind us why Kingwood truly rule.
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Good Whiskey, our second taste of Home, features scintillating slide guitar and surprisingly romantic lyrics: “Your beauty and your grace will one day surely start a war.” God & Gun’s old-worldly lyrical charm (“On a night like this under the stars I reminisce…”) offsets its jaunty pace and cheeky instrumental tone. Startling examples of guitar virtuosity occur on the reg throughout this Melbourne four-piece’s fourth record (see: the call-and-response riff dialogue at the tail end of Gone Gone Baby Gone – what show-offs!).
Boasting an irresistible clap-along tempo, swaggering penultimate track Movin On is a hat tip to T. Rex’s Get It On, during which Linacre channels Bon Scott. Riches – the acoustic guitar-driven closer – takes it down a notch: Western feel, waltz rhythm, strings, Willie Nelson-tinged vocal delivery – you wouldn’t pick it as a Kingswood song without prior knowledge. Home veers into previously uncharted, nuanced territory to showcase a showroom-condition, restored Kingswood.
Label: MGM
Release date: February 24
