Anthems for OutlawsHammerlock |
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The first "hit" we come across features a ghastly likeness to the opening riff of Fastway's "Say What You Will." And honestly, had Fast Eddie and the gang hailed from somewhere slightly Southwest of wherever, this might be them. Hammerlock's last record was called "American Asshole" and for that alone I had to hear 'em-and this follow up, "Anthems for Outlaws" is as you might expect, noisy, pompous and juvenile… but it does have one saving grace for those finely skilled listening dignitaries still left among us… they're ill-mannered. Okay, okay, so you're probably thinking it's another Skynyrd meets The Allman's meets Nashville Pussy in a dead drunk stupor after pulling an all-nighter toasting to the next hundred years of Mr. Jack… Honestly, and as badly as I wanted to avoid any of the comparisons altogether, one out of three ain't too bad, they fall right in, or right over as the case may be, with the last comparison-we're talking a bunch of Jesse James Dupree school graduates of from the hellhole school of rank and fodder, overwrought in wranglers and wattage and delivering some of the most unwelcome hillbilly punk rock and vomit ever to come across these tender ears. "Anthems…" features a full twenty tunes loaded in its arsenal of slapstick and buckshot! Locked and loaded-the latter a very loosely hung term, Hammerlock's "Anthems for Outlaws" is a well broken and smokin' barrel ready to empty itself on the first unwitting target that veers across they're path… Goddamn my luck anyway! MAN'S RUIN RECORDS,
610 22nd Street #302, San Francisco, CA 94107 Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu] |