Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Powersolo - It's Race Day...and your pussy is Gut!!!

This CD again features Kim Kix (vocals/guitars), Atomic Child (guitars/vocals) and JC Benz (drums/percussion), so it is a different line up than the current, touring version of Powersolo, and the recordings are fuller with layers of instruments, including keyboards.

It is all still a strange mix, though, starting with "Baby, You Ain't Looking Right", an unhinged organ-fueled, garage groover. "Kat Nazer (Powersoul)" is a slower, admittedly, kinda soulful bit of noize with nice female backing vocals but bizarre, scat-like lead vocals, which jumps into the rollin', rollickin' "Mr. Suit" - garage chord progression with "Wipe-Out"-like drums, followed by a Mexican number, complete with trumpet, "Juanito" (done with some Powersolo weirdness, of course). "Oak Tree Girl" is almost folk-pop with some cool slide/lap steel and reasonably normal vocals, "Hillbilly Child" is truly kinda hillbilly-ish with lap steel and banjo and a boastful/paranoiac rap over it and "NASCAR" (which I remember them doing at the show in a different form) is a frantic, riff-oriented number.

They slow things down for the oddly-titled, synth-y, soul-groover, "Fertilizer Baby" (cuz she is full of shit, I can only assume?) then I dunno what they heck they are doing in "Good Behavior" - kinda hillbilly, kinda garage, kinda punk, wacky guitar breaks and weird vocals. "Booty Smoke" is a super-short, cool slide-guitar rocker, "Broken Wings" is a pretty straight-forward country ballad with nice pedal steel touches, "Be Witcha" is another strange mash-up of country, rap and almost-drum-machine sounding percussion (kinda like Eagles of Death Metal tend to do). Again, they kinda throw the kitchen sink in "Don't Hate Me Baby" - almost a polka beat, soulful horns'n'keys, and plenty of wackiness and the end it all with another country pseudo parody in the goofy "Truckin'".

Another mixed bag of deliriously flipped out'n'freaky wackiness. Fun stuff, but don't think this is for everyone, by any stretch!