Rob’s Album Of The Week: Eldridge Rodriguez’s Slightest Of Treason

Let’s face it, the world is a bit of a mess these days. People are pissed off and rightfully so for the most part. Either they’re working too hard for a paycheck that isn’t enough, they’re tired of being treated unfairly because of their race, gender and/or orientation or they’re just on edge because they don’t know what the next day is going to bring. We live in scary times, so frontman Cameron Keiber from the Boston alternative rock act Eldridge Rodriguez put this angst into art with the band’s fourth full-length album Slightest Of Treason. It’s due out via Keiber’s label Midriff Records on February 7 and it’s purely electric with an intense vigor.

Rounding out Eldridge Rodriguez’s lineup is David Grabowski on the bass and keys, Keiber’s brother Clayton on guitar and Grabowski’s brother Dennis on drums. The quartet recorded everything at Bluetone Studio in Somerville, Massachusetts with Grabowski doing the engineering. Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice also handled the mastering duties at Peerless Mastering in Newtonville, Massachusetts. The audial quality of the album is fantastic with the guitars having a big presence. It’s sonically reminiscent of Bob Mould as it echoes a lot of Husker Dü’s raw tones.

It has been said that anxiety and pain can bring out the best art and often that is true. It doesn’t have to…