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« on: April 03, 2017, 06:58:24 AM »
Yellow Green Red review:
Very cool release from the always tasty Negative Jazz label, presumably a modern band called Playboy. (You can always tell the modern punk bands from the reissued ones - the reissued bands actually have liner notes or basic band information.) Lots of bands are compared to Flipper these days, usually fairly inaccurately if you ask me, but Playboy carry Flipper's torch with pride and zest. Pretty sure there's no guitar, just bass, drums, a synth or two, and someone skronking on a horn, and the riffs have the sort of bouncy, weirdly-happy progressions of a "Way Of The World" or "Shed No Tears". The bass has a thick warble to recall Church Police, and the vocalist gives plenty of room for the band to jam, as if these four tracks don't come with fixed lengths, they simply expire when all of the band members look at each other and someone gives a nod. "The Weather" stomps like Gary Wrong but is far more psychedelic than noisy, and "The Outside?" is so slow and exhausted, as if Cyanamid's "Stop The World" was covered by some Residents side-project for a Ralph Records compilation sampler. Celebration really hits all the right notes for me, and as far as modern agitated dirge-punk psychedelia is concerned, they're a frontrunner.
Still have copies!
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