Drive By Wire – Time Horizon

 

 

Drive By Wire – Time Horizon
Argonauta Records – 2024
Rock, Stoner, Desert, Psych, Fuzz
Rated: ****

As we inch closer to the deadline for YOUR lists for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2024. Namely, before Saturday December 14th, 8.00 CET. We decided to deep dive into that folder full of albums we desperately had wanted to mention this year. We wrote about something like 250 albums and EP’s this year. But in that folder, there are still some 400 more that we had wanted to bring into your peripheral vision. And we are saddened that we will never get to that… But well, besides trying to keep up with all the new ones coming out, we’re now trying to bring into the spotlight one from every month passed that we unfortunately did not mention during the month they were released.

We already did four posts that glanced back at the first four months of 2024. So, this is the fifth, logically for May. Drive By Wire. Dutch heroes that have been around for ages and I believe their self-titled album from 2006 was one of the first albums I reviewed for Revolver Magazine. They’ve been on my car stereo ever since. The Whole Shebang from 2016, Spellbound from 2018 and that first album, all damn fine songs for driving at whatever hour of whatever day at whatever speed. Even when you run out of gas, this is the kind of music that will give you another extra hundred miles. And we can add Time Horizon to that list. Eight tracks, driven by fuzz, ridden by a majestic groove and whipped up by the misty and wistful vocals of Simone Holsbeek. Second track Slowrider, the prime example of that leisurely movement through the arid wilderness. And Dustfader, almost speedrocking its way to the end of the desert highway. And then there’s the wonderful Black Sails track, with its Americana and Noir touch. A moments that lets Simone's vocals shine as much as the riffs and melodies did beforehand and those hums in the background add so much extra atmosphere to that track it immediately turns it into much more than a break from all that great fuzzy stonerrock they delivered until then. And yes, once again, a perfect soundtrack for a world passing by your car window. Add to this the almost ten minute long title track that follows, that meanders and flows and feels like one huge current of blissful energy and you have the best Drive By Wire album one can imagine. And it’s real. And for you to listen to as you drive off into the sunset…

(Written by JK)

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