Nashville’s Promised Land Sound are a band that are hard to describe.
Don’t get me wrong they have a ‘sound’ big, compelling, and distinctive. And
that’s it – distinctive – I struggle to find them like anything else I’ve
listened to.
I’d heard the comparisons to the Byrd’s and Big Star but
never really got that despite the soaring harmonies. What good are comparisons anyway
when you’re listening to a band as good as Promised Land Sound?
Showcasing songs from their new album ‘For Use and Delight’ they
cook up a muscular and sophisticated sound topped with high harmonies and squalling guitars. At
times driving and then languid as on ‘She Takes Me There’ the band create their
own sound.
The crowd in Edinburgh’s postage stamp sized venue/club
Sneaky Pete’s were treated to an evening of melodic effervescent rock from a
band that rocks out when it suits and throughout display a range of colour and
tone that suggest that there is more to come, much more to come from this young
band.
Catch this band if you can, they will repay your attention.
