Ladyhawk’s rock n roll has the essence of a marching militia about it, the spirit of buckets as drums and broomstick’s strung with shoelaces for guitars. Fight For Anarchy, the band’s second release, while not After the Gold Rush or La Marseillaise, displays a tendency towards the engagingly ragged and anthemic; piqued and sanguine. Melodically surging ditty’s ‘War’, ‘If You Run’, and ‘You Ran’ have a playful intensity and camaraderie about them that relieve tension by inciting it.
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My background with improv comedy, limited in live experiences to Rochester’s Geva Theatre and Manhattan’s Upright Citizens Brigade, has always been a tenuous one, often prompting the sensation of being on a first date, the dark shroud of awkward silence continually looming on the fringes of conversation, which is plowed through to avert the disaster like a blitzkrieg of the tongue.
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