Frenzy Holy Roller Baby

• 1 Leper Blues / Spread Your Love Around 06:51
• 2 Drag the Lake 03:55
• 3 Your Body Will Sing 04:14
• 4 Blue Devil Inn 05:09
• 5 Run Through the Valley 03:27
• 6 Paper Tigers 02:16
• 7 Eve 05:10
• 8 Guillotine 03:58
• 9 Id Vicious 04:19
• 10 Ravings at Your Window 05:28
• 11 Mantra 03:35
• Total Runtime 48:22

Info for Frenzy

With funky, soulful riffs, rampant melodies, hooky songcraft and markedly smooth production, Holy Roller Baby sound like a band with some measure of experience behind them on their upcoming debut album, Frenzy. As well they should since the Texas-based band (Austin and Dallas) features three-fourths of the defunct Heavy Glow. Jared Mullins, Nick Snyder and Patrick Smith from that band join up with drummer Luke Callaway — also in Snyder‘s bluesy solo-ish project, Nick Snyder & The Real Deal, which released a debut EP in March — and while there remains a strong current of Josh Homme-style melody in Mullins‘ voice, Holy Roller Baby feel immediately less restrained by heavy rock convention than the prior outfit. Eschewing psychedelic elements for an earthier feel, a cut like “Blue Devin Inn” finds its way into the ethereal nonetheless, likewise the closer “Mantra,” and the starts and stops of “Id Vicious” and the strut of “Ravings at Your Window” expand on the core desert-hued familiarity one might hear in the opener “Leper Blues/Spread Your Love Around” and a song like “Eve.” It is an encouraging debut, built with a clear intention toward reaching out to an audience beyond the heavy rock underground and offering everyone a glimpse at what they’ve been missing.

Holy Roller Baby issued “Leper Blues” a few months back as a kind of sneak preview single and there’s a video below that’s ready for digging in. To guide you on your way, here’s the album announcement from the PR wire:

Louder than the sounds of rowdy groups and leaders in authority are the ever-so-honest thoughts of those who view life from the corner. Described as “rock that rolls with primitive swagger,” Holy Roller Baby’s upcoming album release offers rock lovers the intensity of a rock album with the heart of a soul record. Seeking to illuminate the human experience without being preachy or judgemental, this record is not about taking sides. By rallying listeners to simply figure out complex things together, all are invited to the “Frenzy” on October 9, 2020.

“A lot of cool kids make music, and I don’t really fit into that world,” says singer/songwriter Jared Mullins, candidly. “I don’t know what it’s like to be the cool kid.”

Written at a time where division may seem prevalent, Holy Roller Baby’s unfiltered lyrics throughout “Frenzy” offer listeners a fresh look at what it means to be human. All tracks were written by Jared Mullins using simple “rudimentary drum loops and very basic guitar parts” before they were presented to the band. Notably, Ian Davenport (Demob Happy, Band of Skulls, Radiohead) responded to their demos with great enthusiasm, inviting the band to record the full-length record at Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire, England, owned by Radiohead’s management company; doors opened for Holy Roller Baby to open for Band of Skulls and Demob Happy during their US tour (September 9th). The band partnered with Chalupa Production in Dallas, TX to create music videos for this album, one of which (“Ravings At Your Window, released June 14th, 2019) hit 100K+ views within about three months of its debut.

Complex in its simplicity, “Frenzy” signifies a turning point for Holy Roller Baby, once subject to descriptions that didn’t match who they know they are, deep down. By fusing the extremes of songs that are heavy (“Leper Blues” and “Eve”) with a soulful-Motown feel (“Your Body Will Sing”), the result is an unboxed sound that beams with confidence. With pure intentionality, the band’s ability to articulate what they’re about has come to inform everything they do. From recklessly-fun rhythms to their edgy lyrics, listeners will find it nearly impossible not to relate.

As Jared put it plainly, “I don’t f***ing get life yet. I feel like I should, but I don’t.”

In many ways, Holy Roller Baby’s music marks an era where it’s okay not to have it all figured out. To view life from the corner alongside them, join the “Frenzy.”

Holy Roller Baby

Holy Roller Baby
is a Dallas, Texas based quartet deeply rooted in the seventies hard rock music. Formed in 2017 with a sole purpose to deliver nothing but pure rock’n’roll music, Holy Roller Baby are more than ready to shake your bones with some proper wall of sound. Their debut album Frenzy drops on October 9th, 2020, and this particular material showcases all the qualities of the entire group through eleven thoughtfully composed numbers. This profoundly energetic quartet promoted their upcoming debut through a couple of singles, such as Leper Blues and Ravings At Your Window. These meaningful tracks are promising enormous dosages of skillful musicianship, deeply stacked beneath layers of characteristic sound.

Besides a dominant presence of seventies hard rock sound, Holy Roller Baby flirts with a couple of more genres along the way. You may hear calmer blues moments, southern accentuations, giant slabs of a fuzzy stoner rock. The group also incorporates progressive and psychedelic rock, but these segments are subtle enough not to spoil the primary direction of the band. It’s interesting how the entire group precisely articulates throughout the album. The marvelously arranged interpolations from calmer bluesy rock segments to massive classic rock sequences are one of the signature moves of Holy Roller Baby, and it will satisfy even the pickiest admirers of these spectacular genres.

Despite their devotion towards all these genres, Holy Roller Baby is somehow avoiding all the cliches presented on the contemporary scene. Their music resembles the sound of the greats such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, MC5, Soundgarden, Kyuss, but the group tends to sound unique as much as this mixture of genres allows it. Holy Roller Baby takes advantage of the vital elements of seventies progressive, psychedelic, and classic hard rock music. Then blends it in with the heart and soul of blues and southern sound. Finally, the group covers this mixture with fuzzy sounds of stoner rock to spice things up a little bit more. Frenzy houses eleven profoundly melodic compositions, fully packed with soulful performance and emotional moments that will force you to spin this album again and again. However, this particular material carries enough massiveness to shake your body to the rhythm. It’s a comprehensive amalgam built upon all the qualities of classic hard rock music, so make sure not to miss this one.

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