Dinos Boys - Last Ones (Oops Baby/Die Slaughterhaus)
Dinos Boys are an Atlanta band in that Carbonas/Barreracudas vein of
garage-tinged ‘77ish punk rock. This stuff sticks to pretty much what you’d
expect out of Die Slaughterhaus -- nothing too crazy happening here. Should
be pretty unremarkable. Except somehow, at least three of the songs -- the
“Hoovertown”-”Be Low”-”She Cut Me” run near the album’s beginning -- got
stuck in my head for a week after the first time I heard them. “Be Low,”
especially, has some nice twisty-turny vocal rhythms going on in the chorus,
and I’ve ended up listening to it more times than any other song from any
record I reviewed this issue. All around, very solid stuff here that manages to
rise above any description I could give them. Recommended.
Electric Eels - Jaguar Ride/Splittery Splat 7” (HoZac Archival)
How the hell am I supposed to review the fucking electric eels, when they’re
one of my go-to references in my other reviews? The first time I heard the
electric eels I was 19 and some person much older than me was playing a
record in the background of a party and I was angry, legit pissed, that no
one had told me about this band before. So duh, of course you need this
record. “Splittery Splat” is one of the finest pieces of annoyance in the ban 8