One Eleven Heavy – Everything’s Better LP

Music From Big Pink or Workingmans Dead being deconstructed by Royal Trux. *** MOJO

Sounding somewhat like The Band and Crazy Horse with a smattering of roots-era Dead, One Eleven Heavy is centred around a veritable roster of players Its organic, joyous, upbeat and natural. **** Shindig!

‘An unabashed, triumphantly affectionate recreation of what Gram Parsons called Cosmic American Music – the country, folk and blues-informed psychedelic rock of the late 1960s and early 70s.’ The Wire

It swings on a revolving door of goofball riffs, spun up and spun around all dizzy from an elastic rock and roll boogie. NPR

Taps into a collective consciousness of what was actually classic about rock, without being dictated by what was pressed, sold or spun through the static crackle of radio. This echoes the 72-74-era Grateful Dead as it was lived in the room, and not as it was felt from the runout. Raven Sings The Blues

‘On its debut album, Everythings Better, rock & roll combo One Eleven Heavy weave together various threads of choogling psychedelia some Dead here, some Neil Young there, more than a little NRBQ and Little Feat into a thoroughly joyful statement.’ AquariumDrunkard

Everything’s Better by One Eleven Heavy