HorrorPops - Hell Yeah!
Hellcat Records
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Harmless psychobilly from Nekromantix bass slinger Kim Nekroman and his personal Lady Frankenstein, wife Patricia. Kim handles guitar on this one while Patricia takes over the stand-up bass (and plays it well, which is no easy feat) and croons (in a flexible but pretty unremarkable voice); the thirteen (ooh, spooky) tunes cover the usual psychobilly obsessions—girls, ghouls, tattoos and taboos. The band swings, especially on the radio hit “Cool Flat Top,” but never really breaks a sweat—this is starter psychobilly in the same way soundalikes No Doubt serves as My First Ska-Punk band for first-year two-toners. Hardcore Teenage Cavemen will probably pass this one up in favor of established fiends like Demented Are Go! or even newer creeps like Boston’s Photon Torpedos or Os Catalepticos, but this might be the right thing to pass along to your gloomy little sister who digs Emily Strange before turning her on to the harder stuff (Meteors, Cramps, Guana Batz, etc.)

—Paul Gaita
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