- Audio CD (9 Feb 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: White Box
- ASIN: B001R4SZSM
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 480,990 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Einstein's Getaway |
| 2. Engine |
| 3. Crawl |
| 4. Gangster Gangster |
| 5. Mog's Pill |
| 6. Hardy's Farm |
| 7. P.A.Y. |
Product Description
Review
SSOWB creator, songwriter, and singer Gareth Smith is apparently a bit of a temperamental character, which may go someway to explaining why the Manchester-based band currently find themselves on about their tenth different line-up. He would do well to keep together the recruits that have put together this very impressive first LP however, particularly considering the tracks were supposedly only laid down following a handful of brief rehearsals. Einstein s Getaway harnesses a seminally post-punk/no wave ethos, whilst careening from funk driven alt-rock to cowbell bashing disco-not-disco, and even downbeat avant-rock along the way - all the while presided over by the unmistakably dysfunctional delivery of SSOWB s key protagonist. Opener and title track Einstein s Getaway bops along to a loose funk groove before Smith s ramshackle yelps charge in, bringing to mind no wave luminary James White of The Contortions...but with more contortion. Elsewhere, Engine is post-punk gold-dust; a pimped up juggernaut with customised glam keys and chunky bass, whilst the wild vocals on Crawl , a Birthday Party meets hyped-up Modest Mouse brute of a track, seem to literally fall and stumble out the speakers. After a brief respite by way of the disarming Mog's Pill and Hardy s Farm , the album closes with P.A.Y . Visceral in a weirdo standing in the street and screaming at a lamp-post kind of way , it brings the album howling and crashing to an entirely unceremonious halt. Brilliant. --Jim Finucane --pimpguides.com - Record Reviews (Feb/Mar 09)
CD Description
Manchester's Stranger Son of WB deliver an incredible mix of alt-rock and disco-not-disco styles, at one minute dropping the funk and at others snarling their way through the harshest of sounds - ESG meets The Birthday Party anyone? Featuring Warp Records signing Lonelady on guitar, championed by the likes of Mark Riley and bands such as Part Chimp, this is for fans of James White & The Blacks/The Contortions, The Fall, ESG, Liquid Liquid and Suicide
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