Album Notes

Dogbreath just smells stronger this time. Harder, meaner and less and more bluesy at the same time!?
From the country blues of "I Know" over the "Ingmar Bergman soul"(!?) of Hold Me (when questioned about that pEr said: - Well if American soul has its origin in hot,steamy southern baptist churches going wild, our comes from cold,quiet intellectual protestant meetings...) to the punk(?) of "Hole". Then theres the hard funk of Fuck It Up and the Wilko/Dr Feelgood riffing title track!

Why am I bothering with this?
LISTEN TO IT!



It's a dangerous game to play; paying homage to Waits's singing style. Per Ahman of Sweden's Dogbreath
occasionally strays into that territory, but gets away with it because - not to put too fine a point on it -
his band are bloody fantastic. The first track of their second album, Taste It! sets the tone.
There's a soupcon of Tom; but more of the Screaming BlueMessiahs, Wilko Johnson-era Dr Feelgood and danceable punkers, Gang Of Four. Indeed the speed-funk of FuckIt Up suggests that James Brown has relatives in up-country Sweden.

Getting to the third song in, Gotta Go - driven by a monstrous Bastard Son Of Bo Diddley Beat, shot through with caterwauling slide and
industrial strength rhythm guitar - I was idiot-dancing around the bedroom throwing shapes with imaginary axe in hand.
Then blow me if, next up, they don't launch into Hold Me, the toughest pop song I've heard in many a moon.
If Franz Ferdinand can chart so can this extraordinarily talented lot.
Fuzz, cut,crunch and in the midst of all that, GROOVE with a capital GRRRRRRR...!!

Joe Cushley Blues Matters Nr. 24