Jucifer

Calling all Cars on the Vegas Strip (Crack Rock)
by Craig Regala

Two piece, guitar/drums with additional accent instros in the studio to flesh it out a bit. Nice boomy sound, interesting combination of sludgy and grungy riff smut backed by real straight-up, small-kit drumming and a focus on rough-cut songs. The surges function inside the tune rather than laying down a bed to jam on. The harshness and dissonace is well within alt./indie parameters, say, like Sugarsmack on Tanktop City, (the one Sire “put out”) with more straight retard grunt powerchord/bubble punk stuff gunked in there. The singing moves from kinda dreamy to shouty to sweetly sung to talky – often similar to Acid Kings vocalist, although mixed more to the foreground. Now and then Jucifer dip into the big kickdrum thing that powers Love666, damn near old school hip-hop, LL Cool J “I Can’t Live Without my Radio” stomp.

Also, there are bits of simple scatching. Why? Dunno. Fits in OK though. Hell, there’s stuff on here wouldn’t scare a Belly fan, it’s nice stuff too.
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