Although you’ve probably not run across THE STABILISERS previously, if you’ve any grasp of ye olde English garage rock tradition, then you’ll no doubt have previously crossed paths with their guitarist Allan Crockford, who once skilfully plunked bass for Billy Childish’s Thee Headcoats, the James Taylor Quartet and the legendary Prisoners. And in such circles, pedigrees don’t get much more blue-blooded than that.
Allan’s new charges THE STABILISERS are anything but dwarfed by this lineage too. Also comprising Jon Bott (vocals/ bass), Simon Corbey (guitar/ keyboards/ vocals) and drummer Francis Braithwaite, they even give producer Jim Riley’s other frenetic charges The Len Price 3 a run for their Rickenbackers on “Do The Brane”: a Medway “Teenage Lobotomy” if ever there was with riffs more immediate and deadly than a field of landmines and craniums being shaken vigorously in the direction of both The Buzzcocks and early XTC as well as the band’s famous Medway neighbours. It’s funny, irreverent and gloriously pogo-friendly in the old skool sense of the term.
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Proper B-side “Wanna” makes it equally clear that The Stabilisers are keepers of a cave full of equally primitive, but essential three-chord troglodytes. Once again this baby is driven along by a heatseeking and stupidly catchy riff and is simultaneously chewy, twangy and catchy and liable to incite moshpit madness within milliseconds.
The Stabilisers have their second album “Wanna Do The Wild Plastic Brane Love Thing?” ready to go at the end of August, and on the basis of these two head-spinning tracks, the only thing to do is lob your mind out of the window and join in rapid-style. Beats the Mashed Potato any day of the week, that’s for sure.
(www.thestabilisers.com )
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