The unifying factor of this cover extravaganza can be irritating (imagine a Hooked on Punk medley), but it’s cool to have so many great songs thrown at you.
I know a lotta these garage bands pride themselves on their lo/no-fi “wyld and primitive” recording, and I can dig that, but this one just sounds like garbage.
Part primal rockabilly straight outta the Charlie Feathers songbook, chuggy ZZ Top, hard luck country bass’n’drums, AC/DC with soul, and Link Wray tribute.
A 21-track retrospective culled from the band’s five LPs. These guys did an Anglophile punk take on ’60s garage-rock with a pissed-off working class mindset.
Not every song is all-out speed-kills punk filled with cartwheeling guitar riffs and harmonies stacked like mattresses in a furniture warehouse, but enough are.