Review: The Moby Dicks - s/t

Artist: The Moby Dicks
Title: s/t
Format: EP/demo/cd-r/whatever
Year: 2009
Label: Mammoth Cave
Genre: Garage Punk
Rating: 85 / 100

Albums which were released in 2009 are normally not very interesting to review on a blog since most of the devotees of the genre have probably already heard it, and have had about two years to optimize their opinions to the fullest extent. In this case we're dealing with a Canadian punk rock band which is pretty much unknown, even to underground punk lovers, having only 73 listeners on last.fm. I found this while looking for that new Moby EP thingy that was released some days ago, even 'though I really enjoy that new Moby record, this just had to be reviewed first, for being such a marvelous find.

When I say marvelous, I mean marvelous for noisy garage punk standards of course, the music quality is shitty, the sound is utterly distorted and the drumkit only contains a tom and a snare, but damn this is fucking rock 'roll; energetic, youthful, not giving a fuck about whatever would come to mind while thinking about pop music. Their sound lies somewhere between The Ramones (especially Ballad Of the Red Dog) and a kind of lo-fi King Khan & The Shrines, but without the helmeted smelly Indian beer belly. It's music that smells like a trashed fast food "restaurant" and sounds like three 19 year olds throwing 80's punk records around in a flooded basement.  

For a music reviewer there's actually not very much left to talk about, it's just 14 minute long pounding attack to your eardrums, but for fuck's sake, I would like to have my eardrums attacked like that on a daily basis. This makes me again realise why I prefer raw, shitty underground music so much to modern polished pop acts. Everyone who can go absolutely crazy on those earlier Dirtbombs records or regularly has huge par-tays to The Spaceshits, please check them out, you won't be disappointed.

Three songs waiting for you to let their feedback destroy your ears

Spread the noise,

Selwin.