1313 Mockingbird Lane – “Problems” – Review

1313 Mockingbird Lane

“Problems” / “Drambuie” (Cacophone)
by Nik Rainey

Any red-vinyl single with a martini-swilling malchik in low-cut leopardskin on the cover’s already notched up a few points in my little red book. And obsessively-reiterated Farfisa runs, some cheesy vocal fx and a sense of besotted irresponsibility that brings to mind the proto-neo-retroistics of early Fleshtones (if they weren’t so damned self-conscious about it) and you’ve got me Watusiing in a rundown teen club somewhere in the Serf City of my Hullabalooza dreams with a belly full of 3.2 beer and the only key to the go-go cage. It ain’t gonna change the world, I know, but given the alternative, I’ll take psychotic reactionaries like these any day of the week.