★★★★★
Shannon Shaw's swooping, guttural wail and formidable stage presence have set her Oakland-based band, Shannon and the Clams, apart in the city's prolific garage rock scene, but it's the trio's songwriting dynamic that makes their records so appealing. Shaw and co-writer/singer/guitarist Cody Blanchard share a love of reverby, old-time-radio pop oddities and trashy punk that plays out as a taut and punchy blend of Lou Christie's crooning and Wanda Jackson's uninhibited rawness...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-05-30
★★★★★
Shannon Shaw's swooping, guttural wail and formidable stage presence have set her Oakland-based band, Shannon and the Clams, apart in the city's prolific garage rock scene, but it's the trio's songwriting dynamic that makes their records so appealing.
Shaw and co-writer/singer/guitarist Cody Blanchard share a love of reverby, old-time-radio pop oddities and trashy punk that plays out as a taut and punchy blend of Lou Christie's crooning and Wanda Jackson's uninhibited rawness...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-05-31
★★★★★
Oakland trio Shannon and the Clams have a broad musical vocabulary that belies their simple, trad setup. Their sound contains lo-fi's distorted treble, the gruff tumble of rockabilly, the soaring heights of R&B balladry, and the weirdness of mid-60s psychedelia. Their albums have the feel of a freeform AM station whose DJs and programmers get their jollies from being gleefully unpredictable, the kind that wouldn't think twice about following up a tender oldie like "Oh Louie" with a punkabilly...
- pitchfork.com
2013-05-21
★★★★★
Like many of their peers from the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland's Shannon and the Clams--a trio consisting of bassist Shannon Shaw (also a Punkette currently playing with Hunx and his Punx), guitarist Cody Blanchard, and drummer Ian Amberson--play stripped-down garage rock, indebted to early-sixties pop arranging and early-seventies proto-punk...
- www.cokemachineglow.com
2011-08-15
★★★★★
San Francisco's cup has long runneth over with very good garage bands, so the outpour into neighboring Oakland should have been expected. One of that city's most notable garage albums of late, Hunx and his Punx's Too Young to Be in Love, serves as a nice introduction to Shannon Shaw. She provides quite a few of the album's best moments with her brassy, impassioned alto, possessing loads of singing ability and an irresistible charisma...
- pitchfork.com
2011-04-24
★★★★★
Now on lp! Hot damn, this band just keeps getting better and better. While their name and image can sometimes lead you to believe Shannon And The Clams are just a campy band who wanna have fun, the real truth is that they are some of the best songwriters to emerge out of the great garage pop scene in San Francisco over the last few years...
- aquariusrecords.org
2011-04-18
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