LIKE WOW: Burn, World, Burn (Psycho Teddy) 

   Since Johnny Dowd didn't make an album this year, I was afraid I wasn't going to get my mind twisted like taffy and bounced like a superball off a back alley wall. Well, I'm happily bruised and battered, thanks to a band called Like Wow and their surreal songs about life, death, electric beer chairs and shoe stores with sale items inhabited by ghosts. A far cry from the old "I saw her walking down the street" formula, ya know? At the center of this band is Thomas Truax, bassist and songwriter who has a day gig that involves doing the stop-animation for MTV's Celebrity Death Match. Which comes as no surprise to me, with my mind all braided, bounced and bruised as it is to the point where all I can do is  stare blankly and say "...like, wow..."
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Twisted, throughly twisted.  The city is a long, long way away and I wouldn't stop for hitch-hikers around these parts.  It's like a horror-movie soundtrack, a black and white homage to fear and confusion, creaking and a rolling into a grim cabaret of side-show freak personalities.  Surf-rock with graveyard stomps and howling blues vocals tackling the burning issues of the day, like haunted thrift shops and electric beer chairs.  Warped, unmissable stuff.
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