Fact #164385

It arrives on the dirtiest bass riff heard in many a long moon, making it blatantly obvious that Cornwall's noisiest sons still mean business. Subtlety isn't their strong point but then, given Gary Stringer's cheese-grater rasp, they'd be unwise to go the sensitive route. The obvious reference point remains early 70s British hard rock of the Free/Led Zep persuasion, but Reef manage to sound infinitely more ramshackle than any of their predecessors, always firing on all cylinders, occasionally leaping right off the tracks but somehow managing to hit the ground running. Be advised though, that maximum enjoyment of Reef can only be achieved with the volume knob cranked up high enough so you can't hear the neighbours pounding on the ceiling with the broom handle. This is the kind of thing that could give heavy rock a good name.
Johnny Black