Album Notes

Michael Rault is talented as hell, and his backing band is hotter than hot. Oh, yeah, and they're all, like, what, 17 or so? Lock up your daughters: these kids rock.
- Ross Moroz, Vue Magazine Best Albums of 2006, CAN

17 year old garage rock virtuoso Mike Rault has put out a god damned great album with these 8 songs. Great garage guitar tinged with those oh so adorable wails make this release stand out as a glimpse of what else Michael and his band have up their sleeves.
- Sarah Ford, Beatroute Magazine, CAN

Edmontons Newest Hit Makers (CDR mini album). Edmontons [Canada] newest hit makers optimistically reads the front cover and going by some of the discs eight tunes, if there were such things as garage hits, then theres several here. Opener My Disease is as big and brash a garage screamer as ever you might hear. It succeeds in capturing the primo screaming 1966 garage sound perfectly, not least perhaps, because singer / songwriter Rault (judging by the cover photo) is pretty much of the age of those garage band wannabes of the mid 60s rather than a 30 or 40 something office worker with a hobby band! There are two covers, the best of which is Don & Deweys Justine which is given a white boy garage treatment and spat out like so much overloaded testosterone looking for a destination! The rest are all originals. Another standout of which Playing Tricks On Myself, a catchy garage pop number played with a Gloria riff in part. Yet another cool original is Prisoner Of Your Love that impressively merges power pop melody with a garage delivery. Rault and his cohorts produce a great basic garage sound which all garage heads worthy of their salt should check out (see also their cdr single reviewed in the Feb/March reviews). They are clearly worthy of a label signing and deserve to have their songs more widely heard. Contact them for more details.
- Paul Martin, Shinidg Magazine, UK

Mixed Signals? No way. Michael Rault's message registers loud and clear: The local teen is an old-school rock 'n' roll dynamo. His second EP, Edmonton's Newest Hit Makers, sounds like Back To The Future meets South Park. Take Eric Cartman, stuff him into an old DeLorean, send him to the 1950s and get him to form a group of raggedy garage rockers inspired by Chuck Berry, rockabilly, James Dean, Don & Dewey and The Ventures. "I went to the drugstore / Bought me some pills", Rault wails on My Disease, a clangy number with tootin' organs. "The way she looks, just drives me wild!" he yowls on Keep Your Cool, which reverberates like Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock. Heck, Rault even turns Pat Boone's maudlin Moody River into a bratty, finger-snappin' shuffle. Sweet.
- Sandra Sperounes, The Edmonton Journal, CAN