Strum Sum Up by dUg Pinnick

posted in: April 2010, Music Review | 0

dUg Pinnick’s last solo release Strum Sum Up is a heavy, heartfelt rocking good time! I am as much a fan of Pinnick’s solo material as I am of the Kings X band efforts. In many ways they are stylistically the same, but Strum Sum Up has a crisper heaviness to it. The thing that dUg does so well is that thick funky bass groove that he lays down just underneath the guitars in many songs, but then in songs like “Coming Over” that funka funka thumpa thumpa is the vehicle that drives the song. Lyrically my favorite track here was the opener “Perfect World Part 1,” which deals with the fact that we are all living under the same sun, dealing with the same junk, and no one is any different from the next person.… dUg does not confess Christianity, but thematically the lyrics here could be a very well crafted “for all have sinned” type song, and it works well. Pick this one up and play at maximum volume! Headphones are recommended 🙂

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