Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJesus and Mary Chain, Royal Trux and Spacemen 3 aren’t evoked by many albums these days, but they’re present in glorious splendor on “Flower of Devotion,” the third full-length from Chicago trio Dehd.
With singers Emily Kempf and Jason Balla trading snarling, sneering, drawling vocals over twanging, heavily reverbed guitars and echo-laden drums (with the all-important strategic tambourine), it’s an album that could have come out on Drag City Records in 1992 but instead brings a welcome jolt to today’s feeble rock landscape.What makes “Flower of Devotion” so much more than a nerd-out for wizening rockers with long memories is the trio’s unexpectedly hook-filled songs, which are actually strengthened by their.
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