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Single Review - Anarbor’s “Whiskey In Hell”

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Anarbor, their last album, The Words You Don’t Swallow, having been released in April of 2010. The Arizona natives are coming back from their almost three month break with a bang with their new single “Whiskey In Hell”. 

In the new track, listeners already know that Anarbor’s unique gypsy rock sound isn’t going anywhere as the band ventures into the new year. “Whiskey In Hell” is another catchy rock song to add to the band’s list. The intense guitar riffs and drum rhythms laid out by guitarist, Mike Kitlas, and drummer, Greg Garrity, give this track the Anarbor feel that so many people are used to. The edgy and almost sinful sounding lyrics heard on this song is nothing new for the band, the main lyric in the song being “I hope there’s some whiskey in hell”. It is clear with this new song that the Anarbor boys still have a goal of creating feel good rock music for everyone to enjoy.

The familiar composition of vocals by front man Slade Echeverria and instrumental sound is most likely refreshing for any Anarbor fan who has been dying to hear new material from the band. However, others may take “Whiskey In Hell” at a different approach, thinking the track sounds just like another song that can be heard from their 2010 release. “Whiskey In Hell” is an example of how most Anarbor songs are composed – a guitar riff intro, edgy verse, catchy chorus, intense and loud bridge followed by the same catchy chorus. After almost two years since fans have heard an entire album of new songs, many may be hoping for a different sounding Anarbor than the band they have been familiar with since their 2009 release, Free Your Mind EP. After more than three years of constant touring from Anarbor, many bands in the same situation reinvent their sound and give listeners a different side to their band than what they have heard before.

With “Whiskey in Hell” being Anarbor’s first release of 2012, it will be interesting to see where they choose to take their music into the new year. Will they keep their same gypsy rock sound that so many people are used to or will they change it up, revealing a new Anarbor no one has ever heard before? Either way, the force behind “Whiskey In Hell” is proof enough that Anarbor plans on taking 2012 by a storm.  

Rating: 4/5

(Source: thebeatmag, via vomitcupcakes)