She Loves Pablo

It's certainly been a while since I last posted here. Sophomore year has been...chaotic so far, to say the least. Well, I'm back home for the holidays, finally getting over my lingering cold (having passed it on to my immediate family) and seem to have internet access for the moment. Let's get cracking with some more music, shall we?

She Loves Pablo is a four-piece groove/stoner rock group hailing from Zagreb, Croatia. Before I get to the band itself, I'd like to thank Jesus Varela (guitarist of Maldia) for telling me about them. I probably wouldn't have heard of them otherwise, which would've been a shame. She Loves Pablo has quickly become one of my favorite groups in the stoner genre, thanks to a fairly no-nonsense approach to songwriting and execution. The riffs are massive, the vocals are powerful and articulate, and the drums and bass are perfectly locked into the songs' behemoth grooves. The band takes the best of garage rock and heavy blues, dials the distortion and fuzz to eleven while snapping it all neatly into a mesmerizing beat. Take their song Burnin' My Soul, for example; that bassline and rhythm guitar riff are just downright tasty. Especially on their second album, Burn And Levitate, everything just clicks perfectly into beat. Production values are astounding for free music. The vocals are even free of any of the accent or affectations that come from having English as a second language. I really can't recommend them highly enough to any fans of heavy blues, garage rock, hard rock, grunge, etc. Anyone who considers themselves a fan of rock and blues riffs run through a considerable layer of fuzz should definitely give them a listen. I certainly have been.

I hope you enjoy She Loves Pablo as much as I have. I'll be trying to get back to posting at least once a month for 2015. Happy new year!