Loud, fast’n’aggro music is always gonna have a place as long as teen misfits feel a need to beat each other up. Speedealer is all about that, no shit.
Stephen’s almost Zevon-esque attention to the words and the feelings evokes more than a pop song should, rubbing up the high emotion of good folk rock.
When Chris Thomas gets into his frequent, bratty Ian Mackaye imitations, and bass-fumbler Kim Thompson backs up with moany harmonies, all’s pretty good.
Reminds me of the band concocted for Wayne’s World: Tia Carrere, the Marc Somethingerother from Keel, and a couple other guys who look like they’re in bands.
From the punk hotbed of Columbus, Indiana. They self-produced and self-released four records I’ve never heard and are on a bunch of comps I don’t I have.