Packing a garage rock energy and low-fi production values, ‘Evil Moods’ blends a dark, moody cocktail of late-night sleaze and gritty grooves. The lyrics nod to not the usual musical reference points, but fiction writers like Dashiell Hammett and Jim Thomson as titles like ‘A Lap Full of Hate’, ‘All Sorts of Misery’ and indeed ‘Jim Thompson’ attest . Hard-boiled and hard-hitting, they’re melded to tense tunes that draw on jazz-tinged punk with a mean and scuzzy edge.
‘Three Times Home’ has a post-punk edge doused in psychedelia and the horns that break out on ‘Rising’ spit, snarl and swagger while the galloping country of ‘In the Evening Sun’ is bleak and arrid. The drumming’s fierce and the guitars as choppy as hell. The occasional blasts of Hammond organ are trippy and there’s an equal blend of menace and desperation to Stefano Isaia’s vocals.
|
Gritty, mean, moody and most certainly evil at times, Movie Star Junkies pack some heavy punches, making for a cracking album.
Movie Star Junkies Online
|