Part dark punk, part rock, there are Pennywise melodies and tuff group shouts, there’s clean, Bill Stevenson production, and that creepy girl on the cover.
Shit-hot rocker-garage cum kick-ass mixed with dynamism collected from hot pennies handled by The Sonics, The Up, The Makers, and many other “The” bands.
The lost record, Europe-only release in 2003. Fiend is helped by Curtis ex-TKO, who knows his shit. MUCH more blazing rock’n’roll than the street punk I recall.
Lost Patrol was Dennis Lyzxén, vocalist of The (International) Noise Conspiracy, ex-Refused. Now The Lost Patrol Band, acoustic ditties have become power pop,
The manic energy and furious emotion of hardcore punk melded to rhythms with an awareness of the whole of rock music’s history, torquing the fuck out of ’em.
A blend of Oi!, The Damned, Motown, and Two-Tone, Snuff wrote songs you could sing along to, dance along to, and mosh to. Infectious, never-endingly energetic.
The performances, placement of hooks, and vocal phrasing are all blindingly confident. The band have learned to reach beyond the meat-n-potatoes of punky pop.