Faster Pussycat is down to one original member, but what a member, in the leathered-up and corpse-painted, extended of girth, vague Nazi-lookin’ Taime Downe.
L.A.-style rock, in all its glammy, swaggering glory. Production is less monster cock rock than it used to be, but pre-funded ’80s hair “metal” was often thin.
A lot of these singers were second-rate to begin with, and that was a long time ago. But some put in performances that take a decent rocker and make it theirs.
As industrial, it’s perfectly catchy, perfectly dark, perfectly gaudy and glammy. The Newlydeads prove that Goth and industrial are the new cock-rock genres.