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Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Sonic Chicken 4 (IN THE RED recording artist from France) * Welfare Mothers

Sonic Chicken 4 - (Perpignan, France) "From Perpignan, France comes the Sonic Chicken 4 with their long awaited, self-titled debut album. After releasing a string of seven inches which have received glowing reviews in zines, webzines and blogs across the globe, and playing dates in Europe and the US, SC4 have agreed to let In The Red release their first full-length. The band plays a fuzzy, ultra primitive brand of garage stomp that owes equally to 60’s pop, VU, Back From The Grave comps, girl groups and Jaques DuTronc."

Welfare Mothers - (Houston TX) " When this record started and the singer came, in I thought they were from England, but apparently they're from Texas. This sounds good, like a beefed-up, sped-up WRECKLESS ERIC or something. It rocks in all the right directions and the two songs are short and sweet—no unnecessary wanking. I know a lot of folks are going to cream themselves over this."Maximum Rock & Roll Two cool grooves here: "Long Brown Hair" captures that 70s power pop sound back when it still rocked a bit and was devoid of sacless Beatle-booted future lawyers and garbage like The Knack. It's that semi-solid ground between Twinkeyz glam-punk and punkish rock like the Only Ones, though those names are bit to heavy to drop on these, uhhh, moms. "Bloodsucker" is a deceptive bastard. Posing as some meat & potatoes Cap't 9's puggishness, the guitars freak in that Modern Lovers' "I am a little too tightass to totally wig out but I'll give it my all" kinda freak, which, in this case, is fine & d. as it sounds like a real freak, not some peg in the hole pose. Cherry debut with punch production by Tim Kerr. —SS" ZGun

 

Last Update Tuesday 29 September, 2009