(available from Peg Leg Love)

Listening to Peg Leg Love’s S/T debut feels like driving fast and wearing sun glasses minutes past dusk, while holding between your inner thighs a favorite liquor or beer. Juxtaposed with the leather jacket, bad boy sound is the poetic and clever lyrics of musician/artist Ilir Zeneli. Some favorites of mine in this respect are “Luxury of Zero” and “Red Horizon,” while other songs are heavy, driven by Susan Raygoza’s basslines, such as “Weekend” and “Big City.” Throughout the album, however, Travis Moore reminds the listener that less is more through his minimalistic and creative drumming, which consistently provides the slow rhythmic pulse required for a drunken evening strut. This album would make the perfect soundtrack for an urban western epic. Keep your ears wax free for Peg Leg Love; you won’t be disappointed.
—Darby Duenas