More of that something something something some, some, some more albums, three more down, maybe more, six, we are the band, still being picky though, you know the policy in terms of what we choose to review, still cherry picking and we never asked for any of this, we’re still not going to spend time on things we don’t in some way feel positive about and well, here you go…
Richard Duguay & The Beautiful Decline – Second Prize (Rum Bar) – What we have here is a more than healthy dose of proper old school melodic hard rock delivered with just the right amount of attitude. A lot more than just swagger and attitude though, think the crafted melodic hard rock of UFO or maybe Quireboys meets Johnny Thunders or Alice Cooper or something somewhere near something like that. Sounds like the Charring Cross Road in the early 90’s and that stagger between the Royal George, The last proper version of The Marquee and the much missed Astoria on a Friday night. More of an EP than an album but then as we’ve argued before, most albums should be cut down to five track EPs, get rid of the filler. Richard Duguay is from North Hollywood, CA, he kind of sounds like it, he started his career playing with the legendary Personality Crisis, he appeared on Guns & Roses’ The Spaghetti Incident, featured on a Johnny Thunders tune, You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory, toured the globe with Duff McKagan, you surely must be getting the idea by now? He and his band do their chosen thing rather well, not everyone’s cup of tea I know but if it is yours then his brew is a good one. This EP came out at the start of July this year, he has a healthy back catalogue to explore should you feel the need, including his rather tasty Alice Cooper flavoured 2019 concept album Bad JuJu
Lords of Form – Hypnotise the World – All aboard, form an orderly queue. a third album from Brighton’s Lords of Form, Hypnotise the World just came out Out as a CD and Download. And, yes mostly blistering psychedelic space rock from ex-Hawkwind bass, synths and guitar man, Niall Hone (with Jamie Gillet on drums), very much a positively Hawkwind flavoured thing, and album that’s driving when it needs to drive, rather urgent at times, reflective now and again, well balanced, good flow and no, not just a positively healthy Hawkwind thing. Fhhu sounds like a mellow Battles moment, a rather excellent one actually, a mellow bit of experimental goodness that leads to a command to take some time out for yourself, take it all back, Everyone Knows Your Name and do you give a flipping toss? An almost punky almost Inner City Unit feel to the end of the rather colourful space rock cocktail that is Hypnotise the World. Back to the start then, let’s fly it again, back the opening and the Harvey Bainbridge feel of Arial Stew before the rather forthright demand that you’ve got to feel alright, feel the light? You know it to be all alright, is there a theme here? We Soothe, You Suffer is an epic twenty minute space thrust, classic fizzing swirling Space Rock and you shouldn’t do that, well no, you obviously should when you do it like this, this is good, Niall Hone is sounding rather dialled in here, Jamie Gillet is adding lots of colour, we’re only ten minutes (and half way) in and they’re past the point of epic already, this is a rather tasty (very tasty) piece. hey look, all aboard, for an orderly queue, this one is well worth riding, good stuff…
Squid Pisser – Dreams Of Puke (SkinGraft) – Squid Pisser are, none of this “is” nonsense, Squid Pisser are a band, they are Tommy Meehan (GWAR, Cancer Christ, Sweatband Records), Michael Armendariz (Duck Duck Goose, Melted Bodies) and Seth Carolina (Starcrawler), they make one hell of a colourful racket, a mad racket (as Krokus might have said), the band themselves say some mad racket black sheep thing about “nasty, fast and noisy glitched out hardcore for fans of all things slimy…”. Glitch indeed, now where were we? In the wake of Squid Pisser’s Vaporize A Neighbor EP and Vaporize A Tadpole collection comes Dreams of Puke, the L.A. band’s second full length album, “weighing in at a meaty 12 songs and cut at a lean 45 revolutions per minute” (don’t ask me why), Dreams of Puke apparently “refuses to let up or let down – emitting climax after scintillating climax – a bounteous bouquet of dayglow viscera and tumor-filled sonic snot” – Sonic snot? Sounds wonderful, thankfully they’re not quite a silly as they sound, well no, I mean the actually sound rather than the sound of the descriptions and yes it is a childish album title and they may insist that Dreams of Puke is “the face ripping, dolphin-loving, anthropomorphized mountain of nuclear sludge intravenously injected with methamphetamines that listeners have been clambering for” and that “Tommy Meehan’s use of effects pedals and sonic textures create a dense soundscape of intestinal debris, mortared with a grout of pus, goo, gummy candy and pure, unadulterated insanity” and that “Seth Carolina’s all out, rage-fuelled and categorically pummelling approach to slamming the beats down lays out a visceral scene of absolute intensity”, something akin to a a “great white shark attack on The Mall of America” – is the Mall of America some specific place then? I guess I could go google…
Tommy explains “The writing sessions for this album resulted in about 100 songs… Demos, seedlings, and scraps were strewn about everywhere. Then Seth and I assembled them into a viable and tangible fruition. I tracked all of the guitars, bass, and vocals myself at Los Angeles’ Castle Barf Studios. The drums we did at Sea Horse Sound down town” – I bet he sure plays a mean pinball as well? Twelve tracks, about twenty or some insane head pecking minutes, glitched out something or other for people who like working with tomatoes, kind of unruly and possible addictive although, maybe not? Just batshit? Gloriously batshit, relentlessly so, a whole bag of musical tantrums and gabber gabber hey ho, we’re going to the fair? no One? Peacekiller? Right now I need some Lavender Filter. Actually, the devil is in the detail, these onslaughts are gloriously detailed, there is a lot going on in there, have you had your five a day/ Hypergood, woaaaghhhhh…
And on it went, more down there underneath that rather boring Deep Purple album artwork that has you thinking it was a last minute afterthought or maybe they hsd dome kind of Smell The Glove situation and needed a liast minute none more white replacement?
Deep Purple – =1 (Ear Music) – Well it certainly does and says what it promises on the tin, this very much sounds like a Deep Purple album, actually, it kind of sounds more like an 80s Gillan album more than anything, a hard rock album, a no messing straight at you rock album, a lean album by Deep Purple standards. This is probably their best for quite some time and with respect, not sounding as old as you might kind of expect them to sound. Plenty of that Hammond flavoured action, of course this is no Machine Head but then how on earth could it be? The key here is, if Purple (or Gillan or even post Dio Rainbow) are your thing, if melodic hard rock with a blues edge is your thing, then yes this is well worth your time, not sure about some of the lyrics, but yes, this sounds like rather decent Deep Purple album, it really is as simple and uncomplicated as that, there’s not much more today, new Deep Purple songs for those who want them…
=1 MORE TIME TOUR DATES
MONDAY 4th NOV BIRMINGHAM RESORTS WORLD ARENA
WEDNESDAY 6th NOV THE O2 LONDON
THURSDAY 7th NOV LEEDS FIRST DIRECT ARENA
SATURDAY 9th NOV MANCHESTER AO ARENA
SUNDAY 10th NOV GLASGOW OVO ARENA
Tickets are available at www.deeppurple.com
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