Sounding a little like The Trashmen, Nobunny rocks his/their? way through my head, dancing at a jaunty angle.
The lo-fi sound works very well with this 60s rock and roll sound, that encompasses quite a wide range of 60s rock and roll styles and succeeds in bringing them into the modern indie genre in a way that creates quite a charming sound.
Every now and then my ears prick up and pick out a bit that smacks me over the head and shouts the name of another band at me, be that The Beach Boys, The Beatles or The Trashmen, the ringing in my head dies away slowly, leaving a slightly odd, but not unpleasant taste in my mouth, that could be blood.
Listening to the whole album in full ends up being too much for me, the styles end up being like a rich cheesecake. Nice for a short while but if I scoff too much, I really wish I hadn’t. This album is the same. When these songs came on in my random playlist, they were a refreshing change and I really enjoyed the songs, but listening to the same, slightly distorted 60s rock and roll over and over again gets a bit tiresome.
Listen to this album: With a mop-top and a flower stuck down your penis.
Green Day, under another name, attempt to play 60s American garage rock music, and in points succeed with their mission and at other points they fail. At points they sound like Green Day, at other points you can’t tell it’s them at all. At points it’s good, at points it’s rubs.
The thing is, I don’t know if I want them to sound like Green Day doing this style of music, or if I want them to sound completely different. It’s just a bit confusing.
The best songs, I think, are the ones where they succeed to put an image of 60s America in my brain, and I just see them all stood about in black and white.
The songs which succeed in this are songs like ‘Ruby Room’ and She’s a Saint not a Celebrity’.
Overall, I think they have a winning album with this, and it’s an interesting concept. They even split the album into 2 sides to keep in with their 60s ideology which is an interesting touch, but seems a bit pointless when listening to the album on CD or on your mp3 player. Maybe putting it on 2 CDs would give it the authentic vinyl feel as you have to make that extra effort to change CDs.
It’s exciting, it’s interesting and it makes me want to boogie.
Listen to this album: In 60’s black and white with your mum’s old clothes on.
Rating 81%
Extracts from ‘Ruby Room’, ‘Red Tide’ and ‘27th Ave Shuffle’
