The Blind Shake takes a garage rock base and piles on shit-ton of different ingredients—pick pretty much any tune and you’re inevitably gonna hear one or more of the following: punk, surf, psychedelia, space rock, garage stomp, spaghetti western, and a helluva lot of reverb ‘n’ noise. Their songs are deceptively simple, dense and often have every nook crammed with sound, no small feat for a three-piece with no bass. The piece de resistance, though, is the closer, “Salt,” a catchy little ditty that could easily be a radio standard in some alternate universe where lysergic acid was administered to the population at some key point in the world’s evolution.
–jimmy (Slovenly)