"Big and loud, but not dumb, Hawkins and co are onto something here."
The Birds Of Satan are something of a conundrum. Fittingly for an album featuring Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, The Birds Of Satan crashes through the door, Kramer-style, with a big drum fill. The rest is, well, interesting. The chemistry within the trio is clear and effective, the album obviously a labour of love. Flitting incessantly between stadium hair-metal, prog, garage-rock and sappy ballads, it's a completely unabashed collection of teenage-drinking-in-a-carpark anthems. Big and loud, but not dumb, Hawkins and co are onto something here.