Kind of liked this five song mini album from Detroit’s Red Weather. Kind of like this album a lot. For one thing, Red Weather are a fun band and I don’t just mean that they are a party band. No, it is more than that. In their music, they squeeze in both humour – check out the lyrics to the album opener “Life Of Crime” and enjoy the dubious rock and roll lifestyle references – and a feeling that they are actually enjoying themselves too. In a time when the shallow attempt to be serious in order to achieve fame, Red Weather jump that groove and make you just want to have fun.
Even in their mellower moments (“I Wasn’t Here”), the band show commendable poise but it is those up-tempo songs that get you singing along and, just to prove that point, I’m still doing the la la la thing along to “Lewis and Clark”.
Certainly there is no problem with the musicianship and the sound of this album – just for a change - is actually perfectly acceptable. “Every Alley Wall” is a refreshingly entertaining mini album.