Sometimes you get the urge to play an album at the maximum volume permissible by law or just by the capabilities of your music reproduction system to destroy your relationship with your neighbours. “By Royal Appointment” by We Three Kings is such an album and, encouraged by their reverential retake on the halcyon days of the rock monster, you will be overcome with the urge to blow your eardrums and spend the rest of your life on a tour bus.
Robust is how this two piece powerhouse from Manchester roll with the guitars being fuzzed all the way into overdrive and the drumming being never less than relentless. Subtlety is duly thrown out the window on to the alleyway below and this, more or less, duo crank it up until it hurts. To put it another way, imagine consuming enough beer on a Friday night to make the end of the week seem like a car crash and then wondering what would make an excellent soundtrack to that final stagger to the kebab shop, We Three Kings have the very soundtrack you have , or at least are currently, looking for and, with a song in your heart and the blood of alcohol diluted insanity pouring from your ears, you can safely head out into the night.
“By Royal Appointment” goes well with copious quantities of beer and, in their maximum power retread of the full on rock of the seventies way, We Three Kings prove that there are still bands today that know what a good time should sound like. Play this album loud (but you have probably worked that out for yourself by now anyway).
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