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Knockout Pills |
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outta Tucson Rock City, these former Weird Lovemakers
(actually, they still might be making weird love, that’s not really my
business) are lo-fi low-lives peddling crackling, 4-track 70’s punk with
an 80’s alt-nation twist. Kinda like Husker Du with a slide guitar,
or maybe the Scientists with bellies fulla brown gravy, or possibly
the Voidoids with a reason to live. On the maybe cleverly titled "1+1=8",
KOPs are rowdy and raucous and herky-jerky, but they temper their
blunt punk bluster with melodies and hooks to create a non-stop barrage of
jumpy almost-hits. Quite pogo-prone, this stuff. Highlights? Well, I can’t
really tell one garage punk tune from another, so let’s go with “Stab
Wound Baby” and “Do the Skin Crawl”, cuz I like the
titles. “1+1” ain’t gonna fuck you up for life or nothin’, but if
yr into the Seattle/Portland Skinny Tie Mafia stuff, then you’ll
probably wanna gulp down a handful or two of these Pills. ____________________________________________________ |
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-Sleazegrinder |