ALBUM: You Know Who You Are (Mono Vs. Stereo Records)
The ragged-but-soulful, guitar-driven country rock of this Orlando,
Fla., band’s debut album will go down big with Wallflowers fans. Gasoline Heart proves that good old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll can still sound fresh. The band’s sound references everything from Bruce Springsteen and The Who to Black Crowes and Ryan Adams. Producer Steve Albini (Nirvana’s “In Utero”) captures the band’s sound and vision without sacrificing its punk bar band roots. Singer Louis Defabrizio’s lyrics tackle everything from relationships to growing up in a post-9/11 United States, without sounding sappy or cliche. If anything, his songs sound as if he has paid careful attention to his songwriting hero Paul Westerberg’s way with words. “You Know Who You Are” is the kind of anthemic, top-down- on-the-convertible kind of record that should have come out earlier this summer..
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