Nightmare ScenarioNew Bomb Turks |
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The name just has a ring to it… "New Bomb Turks." Catchy, and by the looks and sounds of this one, deadly! Dirty, dangerous, mean and a little obscene, the Turks' sixth spews with enough vehemence and venom to have those commercially appealing corporate rock whiners fleeing from all angles with their hands pressed over their ears! There's also this rockabilly vibe playing off in the background-a greaser's groove with classic chordplay and cymbal crashing, demon driving exploits more in tune with yesterday's howl at the moon midnight classics that still possess a minor degree of freakout during those old black and white horrors! "Killer's Kiss" stands out midway simply because it sounds like anyone of about five or six Stones' songs-heavy on the piano and shake appeal, this one's just slightly off the beaten path where velocity and volume set the earlier precedent. Back for blood, "Continental Cats" rips and tears its way through your nerve fibers-and so while your neurological decay's gotten underway, why not take this time to get up and clap your hands-you got nothing to lose! About at this point, there's a real sense of damnable diversity here that I hadn't noticed earlier on… right about where "Killer's Kiss" kinda got the ball rolling so I'd dare say it gets not only better but more interesting as we go on-got this Detroit crash and bang thing going strong by this time-a real four to the four brand of rage and rumble. "Spanish Fly By Night," though not an actual song, but a minute and half flood of distorted effects sounds deliriously cool in some strange drug-induced type of way… wait a minute did I miss something here? Okay this is an actual song… and a good one at that! So anyway there was something that shows up as just an effectual break somewhere… We're rocking in the free world here and now I'm convinced these guys are all of our past devil-music artists of yesterday revised and recharged on some sort of well spring of youthful transference… classic rock and roll meets garage punk in an explosive display of depth and power! They might've reached six the hard way but not even having heard their past work, I'd dare say this one's New Bomb Turks' finest hour… a witching hour at that, but after the first few minutes things just took off and here's this "Nightmare Scenario" that leaves you up nights writhing in a pleasant state of restless ecstasy! Released by Epitaph Records Review By Vinnie Apicella |