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Don’t mind admitting that we’ve been impatiently awaiting the release of this cutie since the day our ears were finely re-tuned by the spanking ‘Kama Sutra’ / ‘TV’s on…’ and the simply drop dead gorgeous ‘Cecilie’ singles.
Essentially a duo - the Wolfmen are Marco Pirroni and Chris Constantinou who quite frankly should need no introductions in these pages both having featured at some point or another in their collective careers as right hand men for Adam Ant.
‘Modernity killed everything night’ is a hi-fi humping eleven track feast of back to basics bull shit cutting groove that finitely dips, dallies and draws subtly from the best moments of your record collection. No band wagon hopping or need of acceptance by the press columns here, you suspect that these dudes don’t give a toss whether their fashionable or not, their past glories are their game playing legacy. This time their just getting on with it and playing to their own rules - those simple being to kick out slabs of sheer unadulterated arse kicking rock ’n’ roll.
Drilled with a pathological melodic song craft, ’Modernity’ is a potently prime sliced filler free debut that swaggers (just check out the fuzzily blessed out lazy eyed ‘while London sleeps‘), struts and sneers with audacious aplomb, sadly omitting both the aforementioned sides of their ‘Kama Sutra’ outing, this beauty opens its account with the jaw dropping and searing skinny tied ‘needle in the camel’s eye’. A turntable terrorising beast impeccably turned with riffs and licks so infectious that jabs are the order of the day while devilishly blessed with a sizzling 50’s grounded glam rock vibe that’s sublimely kissed by a swooning coda neatly borrowed from the Flamin’ Groovies ’shake some action’. Cut with the most ridiculously catchy of hooks ’Jackie Says’ mooches and prowls amid a snake winding landscape festooned with low slung reptilian twangs and the sultry caress of howling harmonicas that ultimately give way to ’Cecilie’. Three tracks in and it feels for all the world as though they are taking the piss now, the shade wearing soft psyche throb of ‘Cecilie’ is sumptuously threaded with cool as f*ck haloes of swirling kaleidoscopic mirages and though we’ve said it previously still sounds to me like a particularly fuzz chilled Velvets shimmying with prime time Love with Baby Woodrose heading up duties at the mixing desk while all the time entranced by the seductively laced 60’s sourced exotic hazes brought to bear by the flotillas of lysergic flute opines.
Elsewhere there’s the T-Rex infatuation of the stripped to the core glam blues styled retro glazed ’love is a dog’ wherein they do their best take on the whole Stones Glimmer Twins routine the Stones references most apparent on ‘if you talk like that’ albeit as though embarking in a drinks fuelled collaboration with the Faces, while ‘better days’ nods to their former charges ’can’t set rules about love’ era material. Barely pausing to catch breath the sucker punching up tempo ’wak this bass’ with its soaring riff shuffles takes its cue from the rounded soft sheen pop orientated DNA of Gen X’s ’kiss me deadly’ full length and sugar twists it with a pedal to the metal mid west open road styled power pop grind. Which leaves the simply smoking and chilled out ‘Je T’Aime Madame’ to round up the proceedings and bathe your head space with all manner of soft psyche shapes and silky 60’s tipped hazes. Essential stuff in case you hadn’t already clicked.
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Key tracks -
Needle in the camel’s eye
Cecilie
Je t’aime madame
MARK BARTON
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