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Product Recall
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9/1/2009 7:27:05 PM
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not too sure how to take this but.............. Its review time
Have to say Product Recall's sound seems to have nothing in common with the look of their album. From first appearances I was expecting Southern blues-tinged bar room rock 'n' roll with an overabundance of average musicianship and vocalizing.
The name of the album doesn't exactly help matters. Full marks for having by far the best album title of the year, but again it doesn't prepare you for the noise that rampages from the speakers like petrol soaked fireworks in a Semtex condom.
Product Recall's style is somewhere in that none-existent void between Slayer, The Sex Pistols and The Beach Boys. The music is bass heavy and as raw as a grazed knee. The vocals have a Neanderthal tone you could coat in fossilized amber and use to kill a triceratops. They are so rugged and simplistic it wouldn't surprise me if the singer stood on stage in a leopard-skin loincloth with a wooden club clenched in his hairy fist. The drums and guitars also take the none-technical route to music-making, being more about noise and aggression than technical nuances.
Still, it all works well. I'm not going to call this a brilliant album but there's something innately loveable about it. The songs aren't serious and the sound is perfect if you like nothing more than stomping around like a lunatic. Product Recall remind me of Lawnmower Deth, another punky and thrashy UK band that took the piss more than a professional urine sampler. The throaty 'death' vocals throughout the record also sound uncannily like 'Heavy Metal Farmer' - find the clip on YouTube - which gives the album an even more comedic bent.
Song wise, 'I've Got A Mental' sounds like 'Richard Hung Himself' (D.I. or Slayer's cover, take your pick). Best song award however goes to 'Twinkle Twinkle', a metal take on a selection of nursery rhymes. Disturbingly, it's the best track on the album.
Product Recall - Kane Dalton (drums), Keef Hodge (guitars), Andrew Larkin (vocals), Eliot Poulter (guitars) and Matt Payne (bass) - have produced an anomaly of an album with Liquor In The Front, Poker Round The Back. It's brilliant for being brilliantly terrible... something that makes it almost impossible to mark. I suspect half the people who hear it will think it's a pile of steaming cack. The other half will adore it with a passion normally reserved for hamsters and 3 legged gerbils.
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9/1/2009 7:34:55 PM
---- Updated 9/1/2009 8:10:51 PM
Who wrote this fuckin' Hilarious, intelligent review! Obviously I don't agree with some of it, but as far as Critical Analysis goes, it comes off pretty goddamn positive, when you consider it sounds like it was done by a High-brow/arty/Music reviewer, who's used to reaming bands a new asshole, on a regular basis.
And I'm one of those 3 legged gerbils, absolutely in LOVE with the Sonic onslaught known as "Liquor in the front, Poker 'round the back"; so TRUST ME, if one of Product Recall's members DIDN'T write this scathing review themselves....(which, by the way, might actually make it even MORE brilliant).... this is truly a cool review.
I'd be proud to be sportin' something similar about some of my "masterpieces"...
-So ROCK the FUCK on Guyz...
-pHLeGm
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9/1/2009 7:38:00 PM
---- Updated 9/1/2009 7:48:08 PM
oh yeah (sorry in a hurry, didn't do the EDIT option)....
I don't agree with some of their ideas, but the Reviewer is SPOT ON that Twinkle Twinkle truly fuckin' RULES; it's an amazingly SHORT, Sweet, Bit o' Punk Genius.
But than.... so does the rest of your killer CD, in my book of Rock Stardom....
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Phlegm
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9/1/2009 8:37:26 PM
---- Updated 9/1/2009 9:45:58 PM
uh.....DOH ! urrrrr... no sleep....'bout to go to work.....uhh.... thanks for the chat, my good man. It's always cool to talk to you in REAL time, and actually hear your voice.....
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