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Mar 7, 2025Like Queens Of The Stone Age at their party-starting best, HotWax’s debut album is full of filthy rock’n’roll that’s made for dancing. That next great guitar band has arrived.
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Mar 18, 2025Ultimately, HotWax prove that their brand of grunge rock can simultaneously serve as an escape and an exorcism, which can be as messy and exhilarating as life itself. Hot Shock provides a snapshot of a band at that pivotal moment where potential transforms into power.
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Mar 7, 2025Admittedly, there’s not much in the way of dynamic surprises here - save for the acoustic-led closer ‘Pharmacy’, perhaps - but for a debut album, it’s a distilled demonstration of their talents thus far.
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Mar 7, 2025As is often the case with such acts, the anarchic energy doesn’t quite translate to their debut, ‘Hot Shock’, but it nevertheless serves as a largely enjoyable opening statement. The most interesting moments arrive at the back end of the record.
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Mar 7, 2025This is everything you could want in a debut record, a distillation of a confident and coherent sound with plenty of room to develop, and plenty of time in which to do so.