 24th
MAY: AWESOME COLOR – Massa Hypnos (Ecstatic Peace) – Psych-garage
colour from North Americans Awesome Color. New York bite fused with a touch
of loose MC5 Detroit attitude. Barbed and biting, raw and messy, not too
raw or messy, nailed down just right – plenty of fuzz, a touch of stomp,
nothing that radically different, just right in the zone lo-fi garage rock
with a touch of extra colour in there with the suss and bite. A million
times better than all those Black Rebel Strokes and such that they’re always
trying to sell us... Grizzled? Yeah, like that, convincing real deal
once more, third album as good as the other two, out on Thurston Moore's
Ecstatic Peace lavel once more, UK dates apparently coming un in June –
www.ecstaticpeace.com
THE
MEN THAT WILL NOT BE BLAMED FOR NOTHING – Now That’s What I Call Steampunk!
(Leather Apron) - Steam punk? In terms of music, the notion is a strange
one, in terms of Victorian looking computers that appear like HG Wells
time machines, or records released on wax cylinder or men with big sideboard
whiskers and bowler hats then fine, music though, how should it all sound?
The Men That Will Not are stomping around with some raw recorded-live-in-the-studio
sounding London punk that flirts with vagabonds and street urchins, with
bloomin’ great big dirty fingernails and Malcolm McLaren style down the
good old East End rock’n roll swindle Victorian music hall punk rock consternation.
Living their dreams through the power of steam (and a lot of silliness).
Not really sure how serious they are who’s making a monkey out of the 19th
century and what with all the friggin’ in the riggin’ and Charlie Darwin
what the ‘ell have yer done? Who let these men out and contradicting the
bible is what it is. Can steam punk be made with raw riffs like this? Surely
this is blasphemy, words fail us sir, that bloke Andy Heintz from Creaming
Jesus and some other people on the run from 2010 with traditional Victorian
gentlemen’s boasting songs and all kinds of outrageous bedlam. The sound
of ’76 punk rock... 1876... www.myspace.com/blamedfornothing
21st
MAY: SHONEN KNIFE – Super Group (Damnably) – The all girl
Japanese band here with their fourteenth earworm of an album. Super Group
is that almost charming bubblegum punky pop of theirs, that infectiously
kooky sound and those offbeat songs, this time with an added love of 70’s
heavy metal that’s added some extra bite and some killer Godzilla-crushing
guitar riffs to their sugar sweet sound. Like a gang Sabbath flavoured
Budgie riffs pushed through a the punk-pop blender they found in a super
dayglo Wonka chocolate just next to strawberry milkshake land, and all
with a touch of extra Deerhoof sweetness sprinkled on top. Some if it is
a little hit and miss, but hey, when they do hit, they’re sounding better
than ever, dangerously infectious, sugar sweet, beer biscuits, kooky Japanese
girls and metal riffs... www.damnably.com
or www.myspace.com/shonenknife
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