Automatic Lovers
s/t 12" vinyl and digital
(Wap Shoo Wap Records / FOLC Records)
Spring 1976: I tore shrink-wrap from the Ramones' world-rending debut Sire LP. And I didn't lift stylus from vinyl (except to flip the platter) until concluding "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World's" 2:09 had totally ebbed into ether.
Madrid's Automatic Lovers' maiden waxing recalls that pivotal episode. Not that the group is of identical rank - so, what band could claim that glue-sniffing distinction? - but because their record is equally solid. No tracks merit skipping.
Songs are grabbed up, shaken thoroughly, and booted into some future week. All are magnetic exercises in Punkishly frenzied, glad-to-be-young-and-kicking Rock'n'Roll, that is ardent enough to include guitar ferality amidst confederate raging, and sufficiently astute to maintain compositional brevity.
1976 hype was that the debuting Ramones had blown out Plaza Sound Studios' speakers. I would not be flabbergasted to learn such had also been the case, here.
Recommended: "Wasting Time," "High Degree," "Pushin Too Hard," "Long Gone," "Out of Control," "Hardbeat," "WGTEYEO," "Shoot at Me," "What Do I Know," "Take My Hand," "Twist and Die"
Videos: "Wasting Time" "Out of Control" (live) "Pushin' Too Hard"
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