(As published for PushToFire.com)
If
the background story surrounding this track doesn’t already read “we
quite like The Jam and The Cure but they’re not really heavy enough, so
we’ve added even more fuzz…oh, and a piano” then it should! The moment
I put this one on I was hooked – quite surprising since I usually need
to psyche myself up for anything resembling one of Robert Smith’s
unreleased masterpieces.
There’s something different here
though. Maybe it’s the infectious lead piano riff, or the distinctly
exciting and fresh sense of Classic Punk and South American fusion.
Either way it had me looking for the lyrics online, only to discover
that I already knew them, having absorbed them during my 8 or so
successive repetitions of the track!
A
very energetic sound aimed at making any fun-loving music fan move and
sing along at the same time - although with an equally catchy second
track on the disc, the only element I had in determining A-side from B
was their order on the tracklisting.
This band is definitely
worth a further listen as well, with their other material adopting a
more “traditional folk injected with pure unadulterated punk rock
energy” style.
Were Paul Weller born in Cuba, we would’ve had this stuff a lot sooner…
Adam Scholey