SMALLTOWN TIGERS
FIVE THINGS
(Area Pirata Records)
9/10
Be warned Italo-Punx Smalltown Tigers have just released one hell of an addictive mini-album. ‘Five Things’ bubbles with the Stooges kissing Nirvana riffs, spat out, harmonious and slurred vocals plus some sugar motoring fur brushed bass. Opener ‘Just Freinds’ thunders from early to present day Punk with every related sub-genre in between getting squeezed into the Smalltown Tigers cage. Next up is the beach riff on ‘Girl’ which cuts ‘n’ surfs the Grunge waters with some prime time attitude. The songs fifties high school dance sound leads beautifully into the modern trash can racket and if the band were ever asked to play Arnolds they’d probably stick Fonz’s head in the deep fat fryer. ‘Raw Power’ isn’t so much copied, more gyrated against as ‘Another Name’ whisks some early Iggy into the mix before ‘Runaway Gal’ spins ‘n’ twirls in a beautifully distorted cacophony of noise. The happy days’ soundtrack returns for the chorus corruption of ‘Darling Please’ while ‘I Want It Now’ stands by the record machine dripping in leather, smeared eyeliner as a tilted cowboy boot heel taps the jukebox. The Smalltown Tigers aren’t reinventing the wheel more like dragging it to their own garage and patching it up with duct tape before blindly rolling it down the middle of the strip. ‘The Bitch’ has more fuzz than sesame street before album closer and title track ‘Five Things’ pounds the heart, head and senses into Smalltown Tigers submission.
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‘Five Things’ is a breath of semi-fresh air to blow away the isolation blues as we cherish the possible future by celebrating the glorious past.
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