Customers band back to post punk with
“Living Like Gods”
To their very core, Customers. are a rock and roll band, and with the release of the quartet’s second EP, “Living Like Gods,” of this there remains no doubt.
“Living Like Gods,” Produced by Daniel Murphy, features no small amount of the former Soul Asylum member’s intuitive stylings of sound and arrangement. Murphy employs mighty layers of Les Paul and Marshall amplifier tone that brings into focus the burdened shine of frontman Ryan Sexton’s songs of turmoil and loss, delightfully aligning itself with the sounds of Television, The Gun Club, Mission of Burma, all while crossing paths with The Kinks and shooting a heavy nod to Iggy Pop.
Customers (having dropped the “the”) have been living among the ruins of ‘90s grunge and jangly pop/rock for over 30 years, and lead singer/ guitarist Ryan Sexton has the scars to prove it. “It’s been a long haul,” Sexton laughs, “a weird reversal of fortune stuff with not a lot of real world payoff.”
The current lineup has been together for just over three years and includes Run Westy Run axman, Terrance J. Fisher, and a rock solid rhythm section of Minneapolis stalwarts Jon Sawyer (bass guitar) and Kirk Hall (drums).
“Without getting too far down the cliche road,” Sexton says, “This one really is a ‘back to basics’ collection of tunes, which very much lend themselves to Daniel’s skills behind the board.
The record has the familiar “heart on the sleeve” bent of Sexton’s lyrics, but this collection has a sense of opaque danger to them- a mercurial and possibly dark mystery that ranges from the playful “King Of The Lake,” a clever (though lambasting) dig at the indie shoe-gazing scene of Los Angeles, to “Told On Me,” a coyish but threatening retribution of the vaguest kind. Other notable tracks include the apocalyptic guitar- driven “Loser Friendly,” and “Point The Way (Mirror Song),” co-written with Murphy and is an adventurous and lyrically imaginative drawing of the age-old paradigm of believing in oneself.
“Living Like Gods” was recorded at The Terrarium Recording Studios, engineered and mixed by Jason Orris
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