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Buffalo Killers
Beat Kitchen, Chicago
Friday, November 17, 2006

Finding kindred souls among Chicago’s The M’s, Ohio’s Buffalo Killers make a party of distinguishing their celebration from classic rock homage.

The band’s self-titled debut keeps irony in check while careening through “The White Album,” The Black Crowes, and Led Zeppelin, and that’s all just opening track “San Martine Des Morrelle.” Caged, pentatonic guitar runs get whipped against the wall with flailing open chords and gang vocals. Drugs play as much a part as history, and if the Andrew Gibbard/Joseph Sebaali rhythm section don’t have Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell on their minds then they truly are conjuring ghosts. Only an idiot would presuppose greatness in these parts, but on the other hand only a stodgy bastard would resist their primal power wrested from Cream records. Anyone who addresses their audience as “child” certainly has an idiom in mind, but if they’re willing to celebrate the past, there’s no reason to deny them.

The Saturday Nights headline; Cassettes and The New Messengers open.

— Steve Forstneger

Click here to download “San Martine Des Morrelle.

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