The 69 Cats Seven Year Itch (Cleopatra Records)
All-star psycho/goth combo smolders and sears as one would hope. Danny B. Harvey (Headcat); Jerki 69 (The 69 Eyes); Rat Scabies (The Damned); Kim Nekroman (Nekromantix). Sometimes where there's smoke, there's arson.
Recommended: "Hollywood's Burning," "Let's Go Psycho," "Vampire Boogie," "She's Hot," "It Ain't Enough," "Hey World" (feat. Sky Saxon), "Good Time To Die"
Video: "Hollywood's Bleeding"
West Of Texas Heartache, Hangovers, Honky Tonks (Pleasant Valley Ranch)
Sure, there are hard-luck psalms here, and they're fine moments that sound real. But variety comes in the form of bouncing country-swing of which there can never be too much.
Recommended: "My Whiskey Life," "Foolin'," "Sound Of My Heart Breakin," "12 Steps To Drinkin'," "Bayou Boy," "Darlin', How You've Changed"
Video: "My Whiskey Life"
Tylor and the Train Robbers Non-Typical Find (self)
Pleasant airs of a country bent, but don't be misled by the unassuming constructions; instrumental heft informs famously.
Recommended: "Staring Down the North," "This Town," "Jenny Lynn," "Non-Typical Find," "Lemonade," "Back the Other Way"
Video: "Staring Down the North"
Go Go Killers
House of Mysterious Secretions (Down At the Nightclub Records)
Bodies strewn across hardwood jerk spasmodically. The walls drip with echoes scarlet.
This hysterical-like-Hasil disc will be issued in the EU later this year, Alabama Sharp told the present writer.
Recommended: "I Got the Bug," "Do the Caveman," "The Manster," "I Want a Woman," "Wreck N Roll Music," "She Loves Stitches," "My Wicked Heart"
Audio: "I Got the Bug"
Ghoultown Curse of Eldorado (Angry Planet Entertainment))
Organic evolution is afoot in the stark, desolate range. Always redoubtably guitar-lashed and trumpet-streaked, the Ghoultown sound now incorporates even greater swagger and ferocity.
Recommended: "The Badlands," "Bullets Don't Argue," "Leave You In the Dust," "The Worm," "Night of No Tomorrows," "Eldorado," "Adios, Gringos"
Video: "Bullets Don't Argue"
The Meteors Dreamin' Up A Nightmare (Mutant Rock) Skull N' Bones (Cleopatra)
No less uncaring than ever, and more splenetically blistering than milquetoastian pedestrians could ever stomach.
Recommended: (Dreamin') "Dreamin' Up A Nightmare," "Unholy Roller" (These two were the only tracks available for review.)
Recommended: (Skull) "Dateless Nights," "Get Back In the Swamp (and Jump)," "Skull N' Bones," "The Curse I Am," "More Demons Than Most," "A Night In the Tombs," "Changeling"
Video: "A Night In the Tombs"
