Twisted, Tied Up, Tangled

Nashville's latest indie rock success story Fools For Rowan and their debut album Twisted, Tied Up, Tangled are a fresh breath of "lipstick rock" that still holds on to classic chick band characteristics while also having a certain level of machismo in the chemistry.

Singer Erin Mullins is blessed with a voice that could belong to either the vocalist of an old James Bond film intro or Amy Lee's twin sister that still does attempt not mask the natural southern belle factor in her voice.

Powered by an incredibly talented band, which includes great riff writing wizardress Rachel Brandsness, who along with the FFR male counterparts creates undeniably great tunes, which to me in most instances sound more pop-punk than anything else. This is especially evident in songs such as "Tangled," Light It Up" and "Living Dangerously." Other songs on the album like "Isn't It Enough" and "I Don’t Have The Strength" possess a far more country singer/songwriter feel. Still, the best song on the album title has to go to "It's Alright" which contrasts the bulk of the album in a far more positive, uplifting direction.

Fools For Rowan's sound is simple yet unique in its own indie, alternitive, pop-punk, country, lipstick rock kind of way that manages to mend together surprisingly quite well.

Certainly a band that is capable of not only making great songs but capable of making very different sounding great songs, which is the true test of a great band.