{"id":13129,"date":"2014-05-23T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13129"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:50","slug":"album-review-the-admiral-sir-cloudesley-shovell-check-em-before-you-wreck-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=13129","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell \u2013 Check em Before You Wreck \u2018em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"main-image\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"display: inline; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51pH8Ja2K8L._SY300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" \/>The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell \u2013 Check em Before You Wreck \u2018em<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date: April 15, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First off, that name. Right? What a fucking band name. When I first heard of these guys with their 2012 debut Fear It Don\u2019t Hear It I couldn\u2019t wait to give them a listen. While I really dug the songs something about that album just didn\u2019t click with me. I was never quite sure what it was but I felt a bit let down. Well, after giving the band\u2019s latest album Check em Before You Wreck \u2018em it became very obvious what it was. It\u2019s all in the production and the mix baby. Check em Before You Wreck \u2018em captures and encapsulates everything that this band is about and I loved every fucking minute, every riff, every gnarly verse and chorus of it.<\/p>\n<p>The album opens up with a kick to the face with \u201cDo It Now\u201d but the Admiral totally lays down the stank groove with \u201c2 Tonne Fuckboot\u201d and as this point I was grooving, nodding my head, and casting a shit eating grin that couldn\u2019t be kicked off my face. The 8 minute epic \u201cCaptain Merryweather\u201d is such an amazing song and in this I can hear elements of The Who, Black Sabbath, Cream, Deep Purple and even some Captain Beyond. This is really no surprise being that The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell hails from the same side of the map as the other British legends. The apple definitely doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree with these guys but again, they\u2019ve taken a little bit of all those great bands and managed to create one amazing goulash that is The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TTVXn_oIs6k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Another thing I love about this album is that it never gets fucking boring. You really never know what to expect song after song. One minute you\u2019ll be getting an 8 minute psychedelic hard rock epic like \u201cCaptain Marryweather\u201d and then all of the sudden you\u2019ll get a gnarly Motorhead inspired jam like \u201cHappiness Begins.\u201d Aside from \u201cCaptain Merryweather\u201d, the highlight of the album comes in the form of the smokey, whiskey drawled groove of \u201cBulletproof.\u201d This is a great song and it\u2019s the kind of song that I could totally see as a gateway to truly discovering and getting into this fantastic band.<\/p>\n<p>The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell really nailed it with this album. With Check em Before You Wreck \u2018em I really hear everything that this band is about. It is a very raw, very real representation of these guys. In some way, after hearing this album I felt like I had experienced their live performance minus the sweat, the stink, and the puke on the floor. Check em Before You Wreck \u2018em reminds me of something you would hear coming out of a dark, dingy, dark back room of some rock pub in East Sussex. It just sounds like great, fun, dirty rock n\u2019 roll. Check em Before You Wreck \u2018em is a great album and if you\u2019re a fan of gritty, no frills, jamtastic, riffalicious hard rock music, you\u2019ll definitely want to put this in your pipe, smoke it, and share it with your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell \u2013 Check em Before You Wreck \u2018em Release Date: April 15, 2014 First off, that name. Right? What a fucking band name. When I first heard of these guys with their 2012 debut Fear It Don\u2019t Hear It I couldn\u2019t wait to give them a listen. While I really dug the songs something about that album just didn\u2019t click with me. I was never quite sure what it was but I felt a bit let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1160],"class_list":["post-13129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-the-admiral-sir-cloudesley-shovell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19766,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13129\/revisions\/19766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}