the scaramanga six/beachbuggy (wrath015)
scaramanga six - the poison pen :
having had the lp now on my playlist for last 6 months i can safely say that the scara six are one of my fave new noisy bands - the fact that this is my own personal secret and no-one else seems to know about this band is both a good thing and a bad thing (good - cos i am cool, bad cos the world need to know about his lot !) . the band have a way with a pop song that is just deliciously evil. the psycho deranged vocals, the classic era stranglers induced organs and bloodrush guitars just makes me burst out in a rash of grins, this is the first exposure of the sessions with tim 'cardiacs' smith. tim has refined the bands sound to the point of extreme. tighter. meaner. awesome. you will be walking round wanting to shout out 'they used to call me the poison pen' to innocent passerbys.
beachbuggy - nineteen :
the fall. cant help it. the vocals, the garage beat, jerky guitars, but especially the vocals (always a real trademark of the falls sound) everything just makes me have visions of the proper mark e doing his bad mood thing. doesn't mean its bad. in fact is really good. and from the info i have the band have been given exclusive permission to be released from poptones for this oneoff .. so bravo to wrath for getting such a great track out of them ..