Got this as a birthday gift from a couple of friends, hadn't heard of the band earlier but I immediately got hooked on the cover.
Had a quick listen on low volume but couldn't crank it up due to guests and a pretty unhappy daughter, so I waited until today.
And it's fucking excellent!
A mixture of garage rock and more slow Sabbath like 70's rock.
But it also has catchy pop-ish bass lines, repetive(or it's just one bass line for each song, and I agree, why make it more complicated?), the drums keep the beat going, steady and firm. On top of that foundation you got screaming, harsh, fuzzed-to-max guitars and delayed post-punkish singing (but very sporadically).
And let the name-dropping begin!
Earlier songs reminds me of the formula used by The Stooges, a really good riff that just keeps going. And the use of bells and later on piano just adds to that impression.
But during the later half of the first song, the guitar play cold easily be from a Raveonettes track, the fuzzed beyond borders guitar.
And that sort of odd but great combo, Stooges-foundation with Raveonettes-fuzz combined with some heavy, bearded 70's rock, really works excellent, and that pretty much sums up how I would describe this compilation.
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