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Album Assessment
Varied Artists
There’s One thing Incorrect With That Boy
CD + Digital Album
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Raving Pop Blast compilations preserve alive the Storage Comp concept that began with ‘Nuggets’. That is the second this month. The primary is right here. 19 unbelievable tracks, from out and out Storage-Punk to Electro-beats & burps! From Mod-esq Energy-pop to laid-back Nation-Tinged-Velvets model… the fanzine it comes with options slightly information on all of the artists… It’s all underneath one banner, POP! and it’s a Blast raves Ged Babey.
You actually can’t beat an excellent compilation and Raving Pop Blast ones are all the time wonderful.
You uncover nice new bands AND have a ready-made playlist for background or intent listening…
The person behind these albums is an absolute hero. His title needs to be writ giant within the newest chapter within the historical past of Storage Punk & Real Impartial Music. He makes nice music himself however he pulls collectively like-minded, single-minded folks with not essentially precisely the identical tastes however the identical disposition. His title is Arthur Andrew Jarrett and I eulogised him earlier than right here in 2019.
That is Our Arthur at his best possible. A piece of some modest genius which opens There’s One thing Incorrect With That Boy.
Arthur/Andrew is a kind of characters who makes the world a greater place along with his inventive endeavours and singlemindedness, however is perennially prevented from absolutely having fun with the outcomes as a result of well being predispositions, making the album title as emotive as it’s self-deprecating and ironic.
There’s a lot to take pleasure in and love about this album although, which bursts through the ‘Storage-Punk’ parameters and covers all-sorts of musics from adjoining kitchens.
The Bumtones – I’m Gone is a piece of Surf Primitivism genius. A sound that’s The Cramps meets ? and The Mysterians on a jaunt across the universe the place they determine, after exhausting different planets to ‘strive Uranus for measurement’ with the intention to dwell as much as their title.
Candymouse – I’m Not Right here (Demo Model) begins with an excellent line: ‘I stand right here bare earlier than you’ shortly including in typical uptight English Indie-pop style, ‘figuratively, clearly…’.
The Smashing Instances – What’s So Good About Child Blue Eyes? With a reputation derived from the TVP’s and a guitar sound just like the Byrds recorded in a lavvy, that is pure bowl-cut striped t-shirt Indie-twee magnificence
Beatnik Filmstars – Tense (Maharishi-Out Take Model) – Pop Scum Geniuses – see right here for more information.
Thee Headshrinkers – Muthafukka With A Chainsaw Few bands handle to copy absolutely the B-movie essence of the Cramps and make one thing new out of it – However The Headshrinkers do. In the identical manner that Scars Horrorshow condenses A Clockwork Orange right into a tune, this crams the plot of The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath right into a darkish pop tune. I used to be outdoors the home, I went inside the home. It smelled of rooster shit / I heard a squealing pig …Wargh!… Mutherfucker with a chainsaw!
The See No Evils – Bother World and Bushes And The Slipway – Melody Moon are each simply totally charming old school ‘indiepop’ perfection.
Shoreline Dreamers – Crusin’ – Crackin’ surf instro stuff.
The Pretty Basement – Lampeter (Tim’s Birthday Model) – classiest and most laidback band on the comp, the Basement are a band on the peak of their late-blooming powers – Learn extra right here.
The Hurricanes – Felicity Paige (Dwell) Amphetamine Mod Storage Punk barnstormer
Collapsing Cloud (Radio Session Model) – Motion Portray! seems like Swell Maps preventing the younger Manics in a sack – and I imply that in a totally optimistic manner. They had been a band I missed out on on the time, however listening again they sound like true scene anti-heroes who by no means fairly fitted in. Additionally they seem on the brand new Below The Bridge 2 (Skep Wax / Sarah Information bands comp).
The Morphics – Blended Up Good (Turned Out Dangerous) Nice sounding Storage band outa Peterborough who’ve a again catalogue which wants trying out for its selection covers (just like the Antz ‘Woman’).
The Boo-Tikis – Purple Skies Ex DC Spectres and Gaye Bykers and a storage grebo rampage that kicks ass
The Dangerous Losers – Seeing Issues (From The Different Facet) is a superb slice of Freakbeat that you just’d by no means know was recorded in latest instances reasonably than the late 60’s.
Crabs – All the pieces’s Shit! – Correct lowest-common-denominator, say-what-you-see punk rock – an Armitage Shanks tribute band at greatest – which implies they’re arguably the second greatest punk-rock (as fool savant driving a white van) band you’ll ever see/hear since Johnny Moped.
The Music Liberation Entrance Sweden – Good Individuals The place Have You All Gone? and My Lo-Fi Coronary heart – 3D – two items of Electronica psych that matches in properly, surprisingly maybe.
RAVING POP BLAST! Love Pop music. It’s easy actually. Pay attention with out prejudice, you would possibly uncover you want one thing you by no means knew you probably did! “We’re nervous about Arthur, he’s by no means comes out of his room”
The Fanzine – which arrived as we speak is a blast too! Nice interviews, sturdy opinions and a great deal of laughs in addition to information.
Order now as a result of they are going to promote out.
Raving Pop Blast will nevertheless NEVER ‘Promote Out’ (to the) Maan.
It’s the West Nation house of the Final True Outdated-Faculty Indie Maverick and Chairman of The Tommy Cooper Affiliation Society. Lets hear that tune once more….
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All phrases Ged Babey
Different Raving Pop Blast Comps reviewed
Insurgent Rousers (The Finest Of Rebels- Quantity One)
Unusual Creatures (The Finest Of Rebels Vol. 2)
The Beat From 20,000 Garages (The Finest Of Rebels Vol. 3)
Your Face Is A Mess (Finest Of Rebels Vol. 4)
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