Because of my miseries this LP is another that has sat around here for a good long while. Enough time for a US CD release (via Dead Beat) to also show up.
This is another trio, from out by Stockholm way. The lead off track is The American Fuse which has more than a passing resemblance to the 5’s The American Ruse. Also covered are the Dirtbombs’ Headlights On and the Dogmatics Saturday Night Again.
Thus laying out their dictate: Garage-Punk, raucous, a bit ragged and trashy. (Appended to the CD are the B-sides of a preceding 7” which includes a stripped down cover of the Stones’ Under My Thumb appended with a few Stiv Bators’ yelps and an unlisted cover of their namesake song, The Locomotion, that launches off at furious pace on the second verse.)
On their own they continue to dip into various pockets. The A-side of that 7” is Tell Her a chuggin’ rocker with singer Martin Savage’s scattershot yelp on top of it all and in which is thrown a direct, gender adjusted quote from the Exciters’ oldie Tell Him. Stockholm City Girls is powered by solid beats from one Topi The Kat and a firm bottom c/o of Loco Lopez and guitar licks seemingly lifted from Thunders’ rhythm part in the New York Dolls’ Who Are The Mystery Girls? not to mention a bit of classic handclaps in the bridge.
My fave is Make Up Your Mind an energetic slice of ‘77 Rock and Roll that opens with a series of tom patterns, which reoccurs throughout (with some cool panning), driving the song forward while on top is a ringing, raked, Belfastian guitar (the Moondogs?) and a relatively together vocal combined with group chants. Bonus points for bring in all fourteen numbers in under 36 minutes (for the mathematically challenged that’s a tad over 2 ½ per tune).
[Released by Alien Snatch! 2003]
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