"Grooving their way through their brand of doom-tinged psychedelic rock, ELECTRIC CITIZEN's debut full length SATEEN is set to raise the bar for the current retro-rock revival. With influences from across the spectrum of rock, metal and beyond, SATEEN is a glorious journey of organ, flutes and riffs complemented by the searing vocals of front-woman Laura Dolan.
ELECTRIC CITIZEN capture the vibe of 1970s rock debauchery and deliver it with an impressive degree of professionalism. The recording is tight and the musicianship is worthy of an audience with the Gods. ELECTRIC CITIZEN sound like seasoned professionals yet their sound is anything but tired." - http://www.hevisike.com/
"Led by guitarist Ross Dolan and vocalist Laura Dolan, this Cincinnati four-piece traffic in high-order retro-minded Sabbathisms that keep in mind just how much boogie went along with all that darkness. To wit, the shuffle at the heart of the organ-laced “The Trap” and “Burning in Hell” or the push in the earlier “Magnetic Man.” Sateen, the band’s debut on RidingEasy Records, features riffs and leads heavily, and Laura‘s croon never strays from the forefront in delivering a barrage of hooks through the ’70s-worship production, but as with Sabbath themselves, the foundation of what Electric Citizen accomplish in these memorable, immediately familiar tracks is built on a foundation of rhythmic excellence in the bass and drums, here provided by Nick Vogelpohl and Nate Wagner, respectively. That organ ain’t half-bad either. The album arrives with no shortage of hype, but it’s a shockingly cohesive debut in style and performance, and the songwriting more than earns its way." - http://theobelisk.net
"Despite a plethora of female fronted retro doom albums over the last twelve months or so, I'm excited to hear Electric Citizen as the growing genre still has much to offer, and also offers a potential brighter antedote to the doom and gloom blackened metal I've been purging on of late.
Instantly attractive, the doom sound is breezily lightened by a 60's rock deftness that was mastered so well by Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats last year. The opening Beggar's Need is fantastic, a joyous chorus bringing to mind a more pertinent reference, given the similarity in vocals, of Purson.
Elsewhere, there are restricted inputs of organ and other instruments, recalling, inevitably, Blood Ceremony, with the haunting Hawk Nightingale notably atmospheric, and the tapestry of rural shires conceived on Shallow Water, the latter closing in on a Steppenwolf-esque organ-assisted rock-out fashion, brilliantly.
There's much going on from the base template, full on Sabbathian rocking numbers fraternising with almost Krautrock psych passages, providing the building blocks to an album that feels alive, and never tiresome, leaving you wanting more at the end of its nine tracks. The voice of Laura Dolan is a real asset, mxing between the occultish devilment of her peers with a purer 60s influence, while at one point I dream hazily of Melissa Auf Der Maur fronting Budgie, or Cream, or some band from the more esoteric alleyways of British psychedelia past.
Having namechecked many of the obvious references (I'll throw in Jex Thoth, Ides of Gemini, Christian Mistress and Mount Salem just in case you weren't sure what I am getting at), it is worth me noting that Sateen holds a direct retro line back to it's forebearers, never seeming to be forced to fit with the recent trend, a pure homage to it's influences yet original and varied at the same time. Easily up there with the best this corner of a small niche have had to offer in the last few years, and thus highly recommended to those who revel in it's sound." - http://www.ninehertz.co.uk/
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Debut album from the super duper new female fronted Stoner, Psychedelic, Doom 70's Rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio
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