Aqueduct is the brainchild of Tulsa native, David Terry, and the Pistols at Dawn EP would make a fine introduction to the talented songwriter's unconventional variety of bedroom pop. It's a sparkly, sugarcoated smorgasbord of influences ranging from trip hop to alt country to ragtime, all delivered with humble, "a boy and his laptop" charm.
Terry's husky, pointed vocals play like a bizarre fusion of Damien Jurado and Ozzy Osbourne. Strangely enough, his melodic wails also make up the majority of the album's hooks. The music itself might be appealing, but it is also generally simple and easily overshadowed by Terry's prominent singing voice.
While Pistols at Dawn isn't a particularly groundbreaking record, it is fairly engaging, catchy and even laugh-out-loud funny at times (i.e. "Who Wanna Rock?"). Fans of Grandaddy, Head of Femur and the Beach Boys will soon be fans of this.
2.5/4
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