Living

The busy Virginia band return with another album of dense, rumbling blues-rock heavy on the instrumentals.

In a turn from the trio’s earlier recordings, which were primarily churned out from first-take jams, Living took more than four months to create.

On paper, how invigorating do pentatonic riffing, laidback jamming, and fuzz pedals, and nods to early metal sound? On Living, as on their previous material, Pontiak dole out plenty of those same elements, but transcend their default genre.

Album Reviews: Pontiak - Living