Vue

What happens when a band switches record companies? Beware, as you’ll be overwhelmingly impressed. Babies Are For Petting is Vue’s five song EP debut on RCA records; sparkling and shining with a brilliant flash of flavor in just under twenty minutes. The San Francisco based five piece bounces with the aggressive guitar lines of My Bloody Valentine mixed amongst new wave glamour that harks Blondie in their late 70’s hey day. With four prior albums to their credit and having overwhelmed audiences at the Reading and Leeds festivals in the U.K., Vue is no stranger to the scene. Upon immediate impact with Vue, there is an echo of fashionable swagger without sounding trendy and clique. After sharing the stage with some of today’s most righteous rock acts - The Donnas, The White Stripes, and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Vue is primed for impact.

The opener "Look out for Traffic" swaggers with a righteous stomp and original guitar lick that relishes in a blush of retro. Comparisons to the Strokes may first roll off the tongue, but upon further experiment you’ll get dosed in a classic Stone’s tongue that struts with austere rock and roll confidence. Psychedelic layers, providing all of rock’s most essential ingredients play a dominant part of the mix, showing the band hasn’t forgotten the bay area counter culture from the past, whether they like to admit or not. "Hey Hey Not In Here" is an in your face garage piece, that revolts and flows amongst punk brashness mixing a tasteful chorus that dips and melts. "Babies Are For Petting" experiments with robust effects along a grinding guitar riff, permeating a legitimate underground vibe, somehow maintaining a wail of accessibility. With a made for stage name, singer Rex Shelverton's vocals work overtime throughout, while abetting the front man to the return of rock and roll splendor. The blues croak within an early Zeppelin/Aerosmith stench on "Find Your Home." A hostile harmonica lead transforms the blues to fire and back again. "It Won’t Last" crawls with a blues riffed outpour of mercy that pulsates its way to a bold conclusion.

Vue are presently putting the pieces together to record their first full-length effort for RCA. Along with Kings of Leon, the White Stripes and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, expect Vue to be more than just a three-letter name, but a jeweled key reopening rock’s revival.

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