Album: All This Time by Heartless Bastards (2006)
Genre: Alternative
Record Label: Fat Possum
Format: Album

Description: The debut album of blues-rock extraordinaires Heartless Bastards showed a young rock band proving their chops with lowdown, dirty riffage, but on their second record, <i>All This Time</i>, they hit their stride and reveal that they’ve got some soul. “Into the Open” introduces the album with old-timey piano and lead vocals from Erika Wennerstrom that channel Patti Smith, while tracks like “All This Time” blend the group’s bare-bones garage-rock riffs with a pop-worthy briskness.

Artist Background: The Heartless Bastards' story starts in Dayton, Ohio, where Wennerstrom found the name on a multiple choice video trivia game at a bar. As a songwriting teenager during a time when Guided by Voices and Brainiac were packing local bars and three of The Breeders were still in town, Wennerstrom used to sneak into clubs to check out the scene. "I would just see those people--my music heroes--hanging out at the bar like everyone else," she remembers. "I could see myself in them. It gave me inspira... Emerged in the 2000s era.

Related Artists: The Kills, Delta Spirit, Dan Auerbach, The Arcs

Music Scene: Emerged in the 2000s era.

Tags: Alternative, 2000s, Album, Fat Possum

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


The debut album of blues-rock extraordinaires Heartless Bastards showed a young rock band proving their chops with lowdown, dirty riffage, but on their second record, <i>All This Time</i>, they hit their stride and reveal that they’ve got some soul. “Into the Open” introduces the album with old-timey piano and lead vocals from Erika Wennerstrom that channel Patti Smith, while tracks like “All This Time” blend the group’s bare-bones garage-rock riffs with a pop-worthy briskness.

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