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ASTEROID B-612
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The Asteroids trademark supersonic flamejobs are tempered here, matured, even. Much like late-period Beasts of Bourbon, they lace the murder city scorch with drawling honky-tonkisms, crunchy blues-punk, Spacemen 3-style hypno-rock, and even a couple stabs at brightly colored power-pop. Apparently, all the songs are about breaking up with some chick, but I get so tangled up in the gun-slinging Keef riffs I don’t even notice what the words are. It’s that kinda album, see, the kind where you play it for somebody and go, “Wait, here comes the best part….now!” and then the sweet fuckin’ solo kicks in. I’m amazed that this almost got shelved, because it’s an awesome slab of real, authentic rock n’ roll, fulla sweat, tears, blood, and a whole lotta swaggering guitar. Befitting their name, it’s a real blast. Off. ________________________________________________________ |
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-Sleazegrinder |
Last and
till-now unreleased record from seminal Aussie garage-rockers Asteroid
B-612. Nowadays main ‘Roid Johnny “Casino” Spittles can be found in
pan-continental supergroup Johnny Casino’s Easy Action , but for most of
the 90’s, he was part of this searing band of Detroit revivalists, spewing
up fireballs of aggro-action rock that that mixed the ragged death-blooze
of the Stooges with the twin-guitar slink of the Stones, circa whenever
the Stones were actually good (1973, maybe?). So I dunno, they broke up,
and this ‘un got lost in the shuffle, but now it’s been rescued, so stop
yr crying and start your buying. It’s worth it. It’s even got 5 bonus
tracks. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.