AllMusic has reviewed the Old Haunts' Fuel on Fire (Kill Rock Stars) album that hits the streets today.

• Released just a year after Fallow Field, the Old Haunts' sophomore album, Fuel on Fire, serves up a more focused and nuanced version of their stomping, spiky garage punk. This time around, their lumbering rhythms and prickly riffs owe less to their influences (although Craig Extine's nasal, raspy, vibrato-heavy voice still recalls Jack White or Robert Plant from time to time), and the slightly cleaner production makes Fuel on Fire feel less like some lost, decades-old mutant punk album than Fallow Field did. That's not to say that any of the weirdness or energy of the band's debut has been sacrificed, though -- if anything, the Old Haunts sound more distinctive on Fuel on Fire than they did on their debut, and many of the album's best moments are loud and haunting at the same time.

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