"Only place I know" is the first single off Svedberg & The Hillside Stranglers' upcoming album "City serenade", due out March 28 via . The vocals don't do much for me, but I dig the band and the arrangement. RIYL Boy Omega, Isolation Years.
This band is way too talented to be this boring, yet here they are and here am I, barely able to make it through their 5-song debut. I think they probably want to sound something like Firewater with their "clever" folksy rock, world-music influences and "profound" lyrics, but they really need to stop taking themselves so seriously and stop trying so damn hard. The ability is there, it's just not clicking. - Avi Roig