So, can this Adelaide band live up to having as great a name as The Arch Menaces? The fact that this album should have come out in 2012 and is finally being released through the third label they've signed with hints at some effort even if the band split in between times. Hopefully with the album finally out they can get back together and get going.
I was drawn to the artwork first with a great red and black cover shot of two plug sockets that somehow looks really cool.
The album itself, meanwhile, jumps out of speakers from the off with the urgent power pop cry of All I Wanna Know. It's a cool, lust-filled cry for, well, you know. Fancy Free might be the reply to the first song's question or just another nugget of lush power pop.
Hearing The Sounds carries on in a similar vein with harmony vocals and loads and loads of layers and almost enough effects to be a bit Playne Jayne. Oh Man, It's Done really sounds like Green day at their poppiest but the lyrics are actually a bit tougher than that. A cool indie rocker.
Not In My World has some great, attacking guitars raging around as they bemoan the fact that she's got him all worked up. But she is of course out of his reach. This has a bit of a Velvet Crush feel to it. The Link is (you guessed it) a tribute to Link Wray musically but with a more modern western sound to it while not being as drenched in reverb and echo either. A cool musical interlude.
Rock Star (Wanna Be A) is, I hope, the sort of song that comes out of a rehearsal jam that just throw around ideas at random about. It finally gets honed into a cool poke at some of the folks who want to be a rock star more than they really want to play music.
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Everyday has a hell of a hurry on to get played as fast as they can, like they need to get somewhere like yesterday. It's cool, fast as hell as they leave and move onto something better and at least leave that cool riff rolling over and over in your head as they cry once more about how they keep making the same mistakes with you.
The Masters is a great song asking who the hell our masters and politicians think they are and why do they think they can run the world. This is a very cool, neo-grunge-y song. Whatever sort of cooker that bass is growling through sounds great.
Then to finish us off, Stars Of The Screen bursts our ear with the immediacy of its headlong rush of guitars and drums careening through the speakers. Maybe they're thinking that if they play faster enough they will get back to the TV all the quicker. Well, we wouldn't want them missing their favourites, would we?
This album sort of claims a place as the first great lost album of 2012 to be found and finally put out there.
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