Never heard of the label or any of the bands, and there’re a buncha genres represented here. And all the bands are from Australia. Who saw this coming?
While Pulp Fiction and Rob Zombie’s new Zombie A Go-Go Records may be pushing reverb-heavy garage surf as the new wave for the kids, I just don’t buy it.
I’ll give ’em points for originality: Taking unknown bands from many genres and letting them pour it out, paying tribute to a great, spiritual rock band.
The requisite drum’n’bass beats, but also the scratching used in early techno, and catchy, almost natural-sounding piano chords and belted out soul singing.
This perfect marriage of punkpop and powerpop lasts 50 minutes, the exact amount of time I’ve been lamenting to my therapist cuz a comp like this didn’t exist.
Half the fun (the other is dancing vertically, horizontally, or bouncing around like a pinball in your car) is trying to peg the origin of the samples.