40 WATT SUN - The Inside Room - CD

Ex-Warning vocalist/guitarist Patrick Walker's new doom trio 40 Watt Sun stands up to the old, classic material: The five down-tempo songs on the London-based group's 47-minute debut The Inside Room update Warning's production, weave in pensive acoustic moments, and locate a vaster sounding explosiveness without straying from the script. There are also those sweeping hooks, painful, introspective lyrics, and Walker's clear, soaring voice-- elements that could be cheesy if not handled with such delicacy or well-earned confidence.