Atom Smash is the latest band to emerge from Miami's sticky sun soaked music scene. Surprisingly without a hint of Latin influence coarsing through their music, the band have more in common with every album oriented rock and roll god out there today. With churning power chords, driving rhythms and nearly hoarse vocals, Atom Smash don't make music so much as they attack it. Their album Love Is In The Missile essentially sounds like a strafing run with guitar riffs; it's powerful stuff that's as melodic as it is heavy and that's it's saving grace.
Let's face it, this sort of stuff has been done and done to death at this point. We can all ramble off about 30 bands that sound like this and at this point and really the only way to differentiate yourselves is to have strong songs. For the most part, Atom Smash have those songs and prove it straight out of the gate. With "Ashes," and "Do Her Wrong," leading the way, Love Is In The Missile explodes from the start into a giant mushroom cloud of crunchy soaring destruction. This is one of those albums that are strategically designed to make enormodomes sway and vibrate with songs that are so scientifically pieced together and air tight that rejecting them is nigh impossible.
While I'm generally not a fan of this kind of arena rock you have to at least respect what Atom Smash have accomplished here. This is a band that has run head first, Leeroy Jenkins, style into the musical fray and come out with a record that's like a diamond in the rough. Love Is In The Missile is a super slick, uber powerful, rock record that is pretty much the biggest rock and roll thing to ever emerge out of Miami...seriously.
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