After Screeching Weasel broke up for the first, not the last, time in ’89, Dan Vapid and Brian Vermin hooked up with three other guys to form Sludgeworth.
Dave Smalley has been setting the standard for sensitive rock/punk/pop/hardcore for a dozen years, and this new record just pushes the genre even further.
Want to know what it feels like to wake up with a huge welt from an anvil falling on your head, but you were too drunk to remember? This record is for you.
Part MC5, part Iggy & the Stooges, part Hawkwind; The Sleepers didn’t have the three chord buzzsaw guitar of Ramones, but they were punks per Lester Bangs.
Swingin’ Utters are not a watered-down version of anything, and they’re not over or under-produced. They sound exactly the same as the bands in the late ’70s.