February 2013 saw the release of the 4th Leadfinger album No Room at the Inn on Citadel Records. Recorded and produced by the band at Sydney’s Defwolf Studios and Leadfinger’s own Rendezvous Studio, No Room at the Inn revisits classic seventies rock (think Tom Petty, Big Star, Flamin Groovies) without forgetting the band’s seminal roots (MC5, Radio Birdman, The Saints). Eschewing modern-day gadgetry and production tricks, the band relied on vintage recording gear and great songs to create an album that could easily be mistaken for a lost seventies masterpiece.
No Room at the Inn is Leadfinger’s most complex and strongest album to date with opening track YOU’RE SO STRANGE taking listeners on a soul trip to Muscle Shoals via Detroit! CRUEL CITY has the venom lyrics and twisting riffs that give this bitter hometown ode an incendiary pitch whilst PRETTY THING is like hearing a long lost Replacements track, a song that should probably be all over radio like a rash.
No Room at the Inn is Leadfinger’s most complex and strongest album to date with opening track YOU’RE SO STRANGE taking listeners on a soul trip to Muscle Shoals via Detroit! CRUEL CITY has the venom lyrics and twisting riffs that give this bitter hometown ode an incendiary pitch whilst PRETTY THING is like hearing a long lost Replacements track, a song that should probably be all over radio like a rash.