“Pittsburgh’s dark and heavy hard rockin’ power trio, Hepcat Dilemma, is here with a debut LP, and from the first spin, this scribe can only describe it as interesting and great! While those operative terms may come across as offering backhanded compliments, I can assure you – it’s not.”
And so begins Bryan Swirsky’s review of ‘Art Imitates Life‘ in the 40th Anniversary issue of the prestigious music magazine The Big Takeover.
Bryan continues: ” The ideas this band are playing with are the same kinds of ideas bands such as Bomb, Victims Family, No Means No, and maybe even ZZ Top, Budgie and Blue Cheer were throughout the course of their respective careers. Loose play with time and space and loads of crisscrossing hard rhythms abound on this slab, and the end results simply smoke! That there are roots to the long lamented oddball lo-fi punk band Special Ed, just makes this all the more special. I love this!”
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