Mayfield
Mayfield EP
Glorious Homeless Records; 2008
There’s a reason that music critics and fans alike fell out of love with grunge around a decade ago. We were all tired of having half-hearted, faux-melancholic music thrust down out throats by copycat bands that were trying to catch some of the money that was being tossed about copiously by record companies. Yet, while it may have taken that decade for that bad taste to be cleansed from our palates, we are rewarded with the music of bands like Mayfield. Hailing from Australia, this intense three-piece seeks to intentionally wipes the grunge slate clean so that fresh music can be made again. Tracks like “The New Black” and “Against The Grain” call to mind the glory days of Stone Temple Pilots, while “Talent Show” comes across (both positively and negatively) as a Nirvana B-side, circa In Utero. Rock music fans tired of the cheesy bluster and theatrical bombast that have polluted hard rock for far too long will find much to love with Mayfield.
