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Brandon Phillips-vocals/gtr
Zach Phillips-bass/vocals
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Architects, 'Vice'
Review from SPIN Magazine:
Midwestern punks take their badass riffage on the lam.
BY CHUCK EDDY 05.15.08 12:04 PMThese meat-and-potatoes Missourians spend their third album returning to the scene of the crime: murders on the Jersey Shore, outlaws in Oklahoma, Salinas jailbirds' daughters on the lam, MILFs seducing future MFAs in Orange County. They wear black and carry guns like Dad did, but so do the crooked cops. Their riffs aim for Angus Young as their shouting shoots for BTO and the Clash and Hüsker Dü. And if the vocals are mixed too low to keep the choruses consistently rousing, energy and emotion buoy the barrage regardless.
Recorded in a scant four days, Revenge is a baker's-dozen kicks square in the ass by the baddest cowboy boots you've ever seen (we're talking snakes eating scorpions and a cactus with shards of glass sticking out of it and shit embroidered on them). While it's true that Architects are four-fifths of the final lineup of former Hellcat band the Gadjits, don't expect to find any ska upstrokes here - only rock 'n' soul barnburners like "Widows Walk" and "Don't Call It A Ghetto."
The first album from the Architects, "keys to the building" contains songs that under different circumstances would have been the crowning jewels in the Gadjits creative mantle but have since taken on new life as the opening salvos of the Architects populist coup d'etat.
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Architects - Don't Call It a Ghetto - 2006