Sunday, November 23, 2008

New CD Review: Levitikus

Levitikus

Trying to fit Levitikus’ self-titled debut CD into one genre was a futile task from the beginning and deemed impossible by the time the last track played. This may be a bad thing in some cases as far as picky listeners are concerned, but not in this case. For those who enjoy both variety and uniqueness in a band’s sound, you are in for a real treat. Levitikus blends pop, rock, alternative, metal and more in tracks that are partly English, partly Hebrew and partly a mixture of both, even providing a nice variety of both Jewish-themed material and mainstream pop/rock. Overall their sound is much more mainstream than typically “Jewish” bands and it is obvious that their influences stem from the best of American bands in each of these genres as well as other crossover American-Jewish bands. If you like American rock and you like Jewish-flavored lyrics, you are going to love Levitikus. Recommended for inclusion in most types of Jewish libraries.

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