Wounded Lion - Wounded Lion

Los Angeles gets a bad rap. The city is known for shallow glitter, bru-tal cops and urban unrest and sure, the stereotypes are sometimes accurate, but there are also lots of everyday folks, living unpretentious everyday lives. It s also true that Los Angeles is famous for a healthy underground music scene, both in the past and in the present. Take the everyday folks and drop them into an underground scene and you get something like Wounded Lion, a great no-frills pop band that sounds fresh, even when they remind one of classic American power-pop of the 70s. Inspired by The Velvets, The Cramps, The Clean and The Vaselines (as well as Credence Clearwater Revival and Kleenex), Wounded Lion is regularly seen at Los Angeles haunts such as Mr. T s Bowl, The Smell, The Scene and Spaceland. Their hum-inducing, toe-tapping tunes wiggle their way into your brain and have you singing their choruses at the grocery store or waiting in line at the DMV.The band s formula is relatively simple: shambling, alternately silly and poignant songs that bend and twist timeless pop hooks. The bass and guitars belch out raw distortion, lending the music a primi-tive quality, but a whimsical sensibility elevates the abrasiveness to a jubilant level. Wounded Lion writes pop songs that celebrate the unrefined, dispensing with ego and tapping into the primal areas of the brain. The LA-based quintet slams down the perfect prescription for your raw pop addiction with heavily contagious songs that break down the sophisticated strut of rock n roll s simplest parts. It s hard to dissect their exact frame of influence, but with severely effective songwrit-ing such as this, it really comes secondary, and you ll soon see how a bleak environment can pull the best creativity out of a sterile gutter and come out with a handful of winners. Victim of Time. Debut album from Los Angeles band follows a handful of singles on S-S, Gilgongo, and In The Red Records Classic, no-frills American power-pop that blends 60s, 70s and 80s influences

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