Pulsating with liberal overdrive in “Amazing Night,” cutting through the silence with a humble harmony in “Sometimes I Feel Like This,” the guitars aren’t just the main focus in Dizzy Box Nine’s new album Faster Than Anticipation – they’re reason enough to give its fourteen songs a dedicated listen this season. While it isn’t the star of rock that they once were, mad guitar play is still a key source of magic for bands like Dizzy Box Nine, whose goals could not be any clearer than they are in Faster Than Anticipation. This band is out to preserve the little bit of honesty within rock still in existence, and through their powerful performance in this record, they give fans plenty of reasons to believe that rock n’ roll still has some life to cling to in 2020.
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“It’ll Be OK,” “If This Is Real” and “OK, OK” are a little more pop-centric in construction than “Deep Inside Your Mind,” “For You,” “Let’s Go Skating” or “Near You” are, but this doesn’t create a layer of discordance as we move from one song to the next in this LP. Ironically enough, I think that the mixture of themes and lyrical narratives in Faster Than Anticipation is a big part of the reason why this record stings as hard as it does. Much like life, there’s no predicting what’s going to be coming around the corner in this album; instead, we have to sit back and take everything Dizzy Box Nine is throwing at us at top speed.
There’s no tension for us to get past in “Little By Little,” “Phone Bill,” “Amazing Night,” “The Sun Came Out The Other Day” or “This Is All For You;” honestly, the feel-good beats and righteous riffing that these tracks are mostly comprised of goes a long way to making me wonder why atmospheric rock’s been as popular as it has in the last half-decade or so. In a season that has been largely missing the kind of happy-go-lucky pop swing that once made rock the most desirable genre of music in the United States, Dizzy Box Nine have made an entire album out of this feature – and dropped it on a country that needs it now more than ever before.
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California’s rock n’ roll underground isn’t known for producing a lot of duds, and in Dizzy Box Nine, it can celebrate another diamond in the rough for sure. Faster Than Anticipation is a fantastically rhythmic rollercoaster ride that makes me want to see its creators up on the stage before the year comes to a close, and though I’m not certain whether or not that’s going to happen – due to circumstances far beyond the control of myself or the band – I couldn’t be more pleased with what they’ve given us to listen to in the meantime. I was made a true believer with Pop Fantasy, but in Faster Than Anticipation, this band takes their sound and the style of play they’ve become known for to the next level of cool.
Jodi Marxbury