Waiting For Henry is best described as a brand new band of old-school friends. Dave Slomin is an extremely humble guy who sent me tracks for his new record with the twice repeated message, “I hope [the record] doesn’t suck too much for you.” And the short answer to that obviously overly polite statement would be that it definitely doesn’t.
Waiting For Henry reminds me of another great East Coast group called The Grip Weeds. Stylistically the two are light years apart, but compositionally speaking, they are two rare examples that understand great songs, use great stories and construction…