Wyatt Earp took shape in Verona in 2013 on the initiative of Matteo Finato and the name of the band refers to Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, an American lawman and gambler in the American West who was involved in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral. After a change of vocalist and a good live experience, in 2018 they released a first eponymous album on the independent Andromeda Relix label with a line up featuring Leonardo Baltieri (vocals), Matteo Finato (guitar), Flavio Martini (keyboards), Fabio Pasquali (bass) and Silvio Bissa (drums). Their music is clearly inspired by seventies hard rock and bands such as Deep Purple, Rainbow, Kansas, Rush or Uriah Heep but although this work might sound unashamedly derivative it’s not without interest and every track oozes passion...
The opener “Dead End Road” is a straightforward track full of energy that could recall Led Zeppelin and tells of someone who takes the wrong road getting lost... The following “Ashes” starts softly, with psychedelic echoes that could recall The Doors, and describes a windy and dusty landscape. It’s a bloody land where you can lost your faith surrounded by creeping nightmarish creatures and the frenzied second part, that every now and again could recall Deep Purple, seems to mark the desperate effort to escape...
“Live On” is another straightforward hard rock piece exhorting you to choose your own road and way of life while “With Hindsight” is longer and more complex. It alternates reflective, dreamy passages with hard riffs and sudden surges of rhythm and rage evoking memories, awareness and bitter regrets playing together in a dangerous mind game...
Then the frenzied “Back From Afterworld” leads to the final epic “Gran Torino”, that depicts an injection of adrenaline to get on the verge of something dangerous and strange. In the middle section the search for joy ends up in pain and apathy, the protagonist goes through various psychedelic visions until a voice announces that his soul is damned. The final part is a wild instrumental ride to hell...
On the whole, an album that deserves a try.
You can listen to the complete album HERE
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