OBN III's third LP – the appropriately titled "Third Time to Harm" – follows the bands' justly lauded LPs, "The One and Only" (2011), and self-titled follow-up (2012). This latest and greatest slab of guitar-driven magma from Austin's great sons captures best the brute energy of their unique calling card; their live show (an experience that oscillates between epic and epileptic) by coupling it with heavy recordings. Third Time to Harm nets that exact rare bird that eludes so many; a truly charismatic front man fronting a real rock band that's not faking a single thing and has talent. And situated amongst a modern class of garage rock superheroes cropping up everywhere, what's so refreshing is that the OBN III's' unforced style and swagger not only shines through, but naturally punches through, song by song, show by show, laying the tracks for its own freight train.
OBN III's third LP – the appropriately titled "Third Time to Harm" – follows the bands' justly lauded LPs, "The One and Only" (2011), and self-titled follow-up (2012). This latest and greatest slab of guitar-driven magma from Austin's great sons captures best the brute energy of their unique calling card; their live show (an experience that oscillates between epic and epileptic) by coupling it with heavy recordings. Third Time to Harm nets that exact rare bird that eludes so many; a truly charismatic front man fronting a real rock band that's not faking a single thing and has talent. And situated amongst a modern class of garage rock superheroes cropping up everywhere, what's so refreshing is that the OBN III's' unforced style and swagger not only shines through, but naturally punches through, song by song, show by show, laying the tracks for its own freight train.
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