The Unit
I Won’t Die
Pavement Entertainment
2017
The Unit is an aggressive rock duo from Long Beach, CA. Due to the nature of their project, I expected it to be a pretty basic garage/punk and metal inspired affair (somewhere between The Plasmatics and the Runaways) and I wasn’t far off… in fact I was spot on.
The songs aren’t too bad, but with the band being a duo / not even a trio, you can tell that it’s only guitar, voice and percussion, so it’s all sounding pretty spartan. I tend to feel that a couple of more permanent members might have helped this project sound fuller… and allowed Sofi Savage (guitar/vocals) to concentrate on vocals, instead to effect ridding every other phrase. More than a couple of songs including the title track are more than OK, but overall the debut for “The Unit” feels lacking due to it being way too basic.
The songs aren’t too bad, but with the band being a duo / not even a trio, you can tell that it’s only guitar, voice and percussion, so it’s all sounding pretty spartan. I tend to feel that a couple of more permanent members might have helped this project sound fuller… and allowed Sofi Savage (guitar/vocals) to concentrate on vocals, instead to effect ridding every other phrase. More than a couple of songs including the title track are more than OK, but overall the debut for “The Unit” feels lacking due to it being way too basic.