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Review: 'BLACK BOMBERS'
'Black Bombers'   

-  Label: 'Easy Action'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '27th May 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'KOECD01'

Our Rating:
This is the debut album by Black Bombers on the legendary Easy Action Records. It features the legendary Mr Dave Twist of the Prefects and Dave Kusworth bands alongside Brummie Legend Darren Birch from Gunfire Dance and the Walter Lure Band. Al of which should give you a good idea of where they are coming from.

Well they don't disappoint. The opening Instro/That Kind which comes barrelling out of my speakers like a lost Jim Jones Revue song with a great repeating slab of bass underpinning the guitars. The vocals sound like they are slightly overloaded and sung through a valve mic; real low down and dirty over a very Stooges style riff.

Whiplash comes on strong from the weird guitar twang at the start and then it's an urgent punk brawl of a song that comes across like the heart attack of the song's lyrics with some great stops and starts along the way. This doesn't let up easily and will burrow its way into your head quite quickly.

Come On Over starts like they are trying to find a new twist on an old Stooges riff, before they do indeed find a bit of a twist on it as Alan Byron tries to persuade the girl he desires to Come On Over so he can show her what an animal he is. Well yeah, so he would as it's proper sleazy greasy rock.

Nameless is another plea for some down and dirty loving, only this time they have slowed things down to a slightly bluesy crawl that has something of The Doors about it in places musically if not in the vocal department. They are so gritty and greasy it's hard to believe he's asking and not just taking what he wants before the guitars freak out nicely.

Crazy is an adrenaline rush of twisted guitars. It was the band's first single and a great statement of intent to blow the hell out of anywhere they play with all sorts of odd noises coming and going during the song. It's also the most biker rock of the songs on the album and fits with the biker image on the cover.

Save Me rushes at you like an express train out of control as it flattens you against a wall and makes you beg for salvation in the form of great slabs of rock and roll which are of course delivered by the Black Bombers. No Disgrace keeps to the band's sound nicely but with some pops and clicks and distortions that sound like an amplifier begging for mercy as they just simply plead for some action. A great greasy slab of Rawk.

Break It Down just flies by and seems to be gone almost before it arrived. Early Warning, however, sounds like it has sped up one of Joy Divisions old riffs before pummelling the fuck out of it and making a real raw emotional song out of what's left.

We then have 2 bonus tracks. The single versions of Crazy and That Kind. Both are a bit more produced that the rest of the album. Or should that be a bit more fine-tuned like the bike is running perfectly before a long run and the rest of the album sounds like the engine 400 miles later? Whatever, it's a mighty great sound and when that Stooges-esque riff kicks in on the second version of That Kind it's a joy and a great way to bookend the album with a great slab of riff-tastic greased up rock.


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  author: simonovitch

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