Reverb Brothers “Adult Entertainment”
by Gene Triplett, Daily Oklahoman, February 25, 2005
Oklahoma City musical mainstay Basile Kollliopoulos kicks open the fuzztone floodgates and fills the listening room (and your head) to overflowing with steaming psychedelic swamp rock tinged a very dark blue on the Reverb Bros aptly-named new album “Adult Entertainment”.
From the spacey, sizzling strut of “In the Fog” - featuring sci-fi fretboard effects from brother Miho Kolliopoulos and breathy backing vocals from Lin Sanchez - Basile takes off on a seven-song rampage of rip-roaring riffage and growling vocal rants that seem sometimes inspired by nightmare images from a drunkard’s dream. Titanic tunes such as “Oscar Wilde Blues,” “Shark Skin” and “Short Eyes” sound like ZZ Top in amphetamine overdrive, while “Swamp Stomp” weighs in like a Bo Diddley shuffle sonically multiplied by 10 from top to bottom.
Recorded at Casey Friedman’s Inner State Studio, with Martin Dillon laying down the backbeat and Chad Feuerborn drawing the bottom line on stand-up bass, the new disc gets a coming-out party when the Reverb Bros perform live at VZD’s on Saturday

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