J. Roddy Walston Live @ Martin's Downtown

J. Roddy Walston is a force of nature. If his hits like Heavy Bells is are a war cry, then thedeep cuts like Boys Can Never Tell are a tactical cosmic retreat. For some, his music is aform of religion, psychedelic in its intensity, transformative in itsgrip on the body,shaking loose something primal that’s been buried too long. It’s not about thinking,It’sabout moving, feeling, surrendering. His influences are a riot of contradictions: KurtCobain’s fury, Nilsson’s fractured sweetness, Zeppelin’s power, and somewhere in therea perverted nod to William Onyeabor’s lonely calculator funk. Critics try to box him in,but Walston can’t be contained—he does chaos, and his live shows do damage, butfortunately hissongs can pay the tab. Catch him and his band before he burns it alldown again.

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