To keep a stylistic grinder like this going, and to keep everything on the level, you need an exceptional frontman. He and the band lend a certain sharpness to the mix, and introduce the occasional beatbox rhythm, but the result is an extension and honing of the debut, rather than a departure from it. Jim Abbiss, a veteran who’s worked with Arctic Monkeys and Editors, co-produces this time around. No need for a major overhaul on follow-up The House That Dirt Built, then. The Heavy’s 2007 debut album, Great Vengeance and Furious Fire, featured a confident band whose sound and songwriting abilities were already formed. Even the breezy folk-pop numbers and the ballads mean business. Rarely has a band been so appropriately named. The Bath, England, quartet bash their way through classic soul, funk, and rock with a visceral, apocalyptic intensity that means to right all the musical wrongs Lenny Kravitz has committed over the past 20 years. Even if you aren’t a big fan of the Heavy’s music, you’ve gotta love their mission. Every band benefits from a well-defined sense of purpose.
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