Stream: The Janks, ‘Living in Denial’

Kevin Bronson on November 4th, 2014

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The Janks have been working classic rock fans into a lather for over five years now, having released two albums of blues-based jams that are comfort food for fans of 1970s Southern rockers and bands like the Black Crowes who followed. Like the latter, the Janks are fueled by the creative juices of brothers, Zachary and Dylan Zmed, who along with Leon LeDoux and Nate Light have been working a follow-up to 2011’s “Hands of Time.” The new single “Living in Denial” was part of a residency-only EP the Janks released last year during their sweat-soaked run at the Satellite. It’s the title track of a forthcoming new EP, and on a music landscape dominated by designer cocktails, it’s a whiskey neat. Is it enough anymore to just be straight-up good? Such is the blessing and the curse for the L.A. quartet (and many of their roots-rock brethren), who on any given night are the most proficient band in the bar, and probably the neighborhood, but struggle to transcend the familiar.

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