Instrumentals all, evocative of life’s elemental offerings: birth and death, love and loss, hope and despair, loneliness and longing, growth and decay.
Foot-to-the-floor angstfests so poundingly mixed, you barely notice they sound like pretty much every massively-produced song you’ve driven recklessly to.
Coyote Shivers could quite possibly be Thunders reborn: The glitter glam-slam attitude and outfits and the smarmy sneer, at once inviting and dangerous.
This 1982 LP belongs near the top of the list of the best punk albums of all time alongside those of Fear, the Misfits, DKs, Sex Pistols, X-Ray Spex, etc.
Bison digs deep into ’70s style anthemic rock. Their two most hard-hitting qualities are a blinding barrage of sweeping guitar riffs and vocal sonic attacks.
“Man Club” is another alterna-rock, semi-not-punk sort of song, “Heater On” is yet another attempt to exhume the Pixies that ends up with a dessicated corpse.