Damn Vandals
– Rocket Out Of London (Sexy Beast)
CD/DL
7 April
2014
Indie
Rockers, Damn Vandals release their second album.
Heavy Metal? Heavy Rock?
Rock Metal? How do The Darkness,
Queen and AC/DC fall into the same category?
Or, do they? I don’t really know,
it’s always puzzled me. Slipknot must
really despise Europe and The Final Countdown.
So, ‘the highly anticipated new
Damn Vandals album’ pops through my letterbox and into my car cd player. Bang!
There’s no mistaking that Damn Vandals are here. Like a cross between Thin Lizzy, Crazyhead and Ian McNabb they storm through
ten tracks, each worthy of being released as a single, with the confidence of a
group that could have been in the industry for donkey’s years.
Let’s call it Indie
Rock/Pop. Almost all the songs coming in
at less than two and a half minutes proving the theory that it’s quality and
not quantity that counts. Each one with
a razor edge vocal, throbbing bass, raw guitar and crashing drums with lyrics
ranging from school hatred to hard drink to pornography, it really is an
absolute cracker.
Let’s just call it ‘rock ‘n’
roll’!
Opener, and latest single,
Twist Up And Tangle, sets the pace for a frenetic album with no
compromise. Yes, there are some slightly
childish lyrics, but seriously, Damn Vandals are here for the crack aren’t
they? Sometimes, this is what music is
all about, fun. Sometimes we lose
ourselves so much in ‘intelligent’, eyebrow raising, padanticness that we
forget we’re supposed to be enjoying music.
They’re being praised by Shaun
Keaveny and Chris Hawkins from BBC6 and the music press alike and it’s easy to
see why. They’re fresh, no nonsense
songs are a delight to listen to and we’re ready to hear more Damn
Vandals. You almost definitely will, as
their cut-throat brand of often psychedelic hard rock reaches the ears of more
and more of us.
Was I surprised by this
album? Yes, I thought I’d hate it. How wrong first impressions can be.
9/10
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