A little over a year ago, drummer/vocalist Jonas Canales and guitarist/singer Katherine Kelly of Tampa-area Sons of Hippies had just completed their first album, Warriors of the Light, a debut that earned all kinds of praise from critics around the Bay (including me). Warriors of the Light was a courageous album, a product of young artists baring their souls, daring to display nakedness and idealism to a world unaccustomed to the exhibit. Even that album cover – and SoH freely acknowledges the importance of cover art to the appreciation of rock – demonstrated their two-headed nature as if it wasn’t clear enough on record: the two principals faced in opposite directions, fused together at the back of their heads, unable to connect with each other – at least not visually. The music on Warriors was endearingly bi-polar as well, the seams between Kelly’s contributions and those of Canales left largely unmasked.
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