Twanging AltCountry with a classic rock sensibility and a bit of Muscle Shoals horns. That’s how Moonlight Towers’ Day is the New Night opens with “Heat Lightning.” When the band stays in that twang rock zone, driving ahead rhythms on what seem like punk short songs, then Day is at its best. The gem “Can’t Shake This Feeling” charges ahead with even more of the classic rock soul. That soul continues to shake things on “The Easy Way Out.” Moonlight Towers sends you speeding down some dusty highway on “What Else Can I Say,” a song just long enough to get you just a few miles down the road to the next exit. The album closes out with the pounding, blues rocker “Black River,” showing that Moonlight Towers channel 70’s classic rock even while hearkening to AltCountry pioneers Uncle Tupelo/Wilco. It’s like Grand Drive got extra muscle, shaking off the melancholic dreaming but kept the harmonies. Finally, lest you think of skipping over all of the ballad tracks on Day, listen to the sweltering, bluesy “Distant Wheels,” and then you realize that AltCountry might be too narrow a description of band that conjures up the blues.
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