I was happy to receive a pre-release recording of Dark Carpet's new CD Factory Side (no cover yet) (full disclosure: my brother's in the band). A worthy follow-up to their eponymous debut disc (pictured above), Factory Side is a thrusting slab of country-laced hard-driving rock. Basically guitar/bass/drums, with the odd piano or tambourine thrown in, the songs are propelled by grungy guitar, structural bass lines, and a strong backbeat, with Southern-fried unhinged (but channeled) lead vocals balanced by anthemic, often falsetto backing vocals. The rough and the ready. Monster grooves burning down to the soul. Any of these songs could unfold into a long jam you could drive down a backwoods road all night long to, with traces of Stones momentum and a Sonic Youth sense of scale, but they don't; instead, they ride out in 4- to 5-minute bursts. Keep rocking, guys!
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