The Starvations
Gravity's A Bitch

Not even half an hour long, but a real cascade of powerful and well-crafted garage sounds, with intriguing and never trivial lyrics. This is the essence of this album by the Los Angeles combo known as Starvations.

They hail from the west coast and showcase the influence of illustrious predecessors of the genre such as Gun Club or, going back a bit further, Stooges or MC5 (from the Detroit area, but true forerunners of the genre). Starvations boast several other works to their credit, including minis, an EP, and a couple of other albums, but it's with "Gravity's A Bitch" that they achieve the goal of synthesizing the state of the art of indie garage, introducing and reassembling sounds between folk and punk (see the instrumentation of harmonica, accordion, and piano, which has a very country feel), sounds we might find familiar if associated with Mark E. Smith and his The Fall or some Irish band from the '80s, with a geographical shift that also comfortably lands us in the post-punk area of the Old Continent.

Singer Gabriel Hart has a powerful and incisive voice, and in the cathartic scream of the last song, where he concludes by shouting the title of the album and the song itself, he conveys the idea of the power and immediacy of this record.