Pujol

Add Date: May 22

Artist: Pujol

Album: United States of Being

Label: Saddle Creek

Genre: Rock, alternative

Comments: When I first popped this CD into the computer, I heard my cell phone vibrating on the table next to me, which was a bit alarming since my cell phone was turned off and stored in my purse on the ground. Turns out it was coming from United States of Being's opening track of wake, shake, and roll sounds. The rest of Pujol's full-length debut follows in the same vein, with a mess of bells, rings, chimes and other percussion-ary sounds that aren't typically utilized for on a rock song.

But if there's anything traditional about this effort, it's namesake frontman Daniel Pujol and his scratched vocals when he howls and screams. If they've worked on Jack White's label, they have to be rock'n enough for the rest of us, right? If so, tracks 3, 4, 6 and 9 are ready to be slam-danced to.