I thought Throw Rag had a lock on the “sailor rock” genre, but nope, here’s Wilmington, N.C.’s Thunderlip, who rave about bad days on the high seas, sailing Viking ships into your crotch, and plenty of frigging in the rigging on their long-player debut. At first blush, Thunderlip sounds the East Coast answer to Turbonegro: they’ve got the easy-sleazy boogie riffs, the sexadelic song titles (“Meet the Snake,” “Fire in the Hole,” “Leather Forever”), and plenty of cock-of-the-walk attitude to go around, with the emphasis on the cock part, natch. The only stumbling block is frontman Chuck Kruger’s voice, which sounds strained throughout the disc, though his delivery and energy is definitely on the money. If you’re gonna sing about being the Sons of Thunder or unleashing the snake upon a Daughter of Dixie in hot pants, it helps if you sound like you’re not gonna pass out from the effort, which Kruger’s crispy-critter vocals occasionally suggest. The band fares better as a whole on the two tracks where Kruger gives up mic duties to unbilled band members: fellas, you might just wanna move whoever’s singing “Evil on Two Legs” up to the front, and give Chuck a tambourine or something. There’s a lot to get wet about on Get Your Life Together, but they’ve got some rearranging to do (or maybe just invest in honeyed tea and lozenges) before they’re ready for Flash Metal Mountain.