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Track Listings
| 1. Sugar Assault Me Now |
| 2. Blue Honey |
| 3. (A Style Called) Crying Chic |
| 4. Pick-Me-Up Uppercut |
| 5. Skip Ghetto |
| 6. Dollar Bill Rock |
| 7. Flirting |
| 8. Mournin' Light |
| 9. See My Lord |
| 10. Hades' Lady |
| 11. From The Day That You Were Born |
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Review
Equal parts Jean Shrimpton and the Kinks, Pop Levi and his band certainly look the part, and his musical trajectory - the experimental three-piece Super Numeri, bass duties, a tour and some writing with electro-popsters Ladytron - is enough on its own to persuade many newcomers to start listening.
The first two tracks are also the first two singles (''Sugar Assault Me Now'' and last year's ''Blue Honey') and great openers. The deliberate sonic swagger of Marc Bolan is instantly apparent - moogs, dextrous guitars, hand claps, strings and tambourines underlay Levi's acid-fried vocals.
But it isn't supposed to be retro or manufactured and for the most part doesn't sound like it, these aren't formula pop songs, he's genuinely trying to craft original compositions that move in new directions but with a genuinely reverent nod to the hard partying genre-smashers of the past. ''Dollar Bill Rock'', for example, sounds like Bill Haley, with The Doors on keyboards.
If you like that idea, you'll probably like the album too.
The first six tracks represent the energy and motivation of the whole outfit in their best light, maintaining the right energy with differing emphasis. Later efforts contain all the mystical folk and glam party-pop cues, but in spite of consistently slick production they lack depth and sound like they're falling apart as they play.
Aside from these idiosyncrasies the album works well as a whole, but doesn't quite reach the heights of the artists that inspired and informed it. --Eamonn Stack
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Customer Reviews
"Imagine Bolan produced by Prince, then scrambled by Beck, and you're only halfway there." UNCUT 4/5
"We've got a feeling that things are going pop off big time for this swaggering LA psyche child"
DAZED
"Less singer-songwriter, more junk yard Beck, this former member of Ladytron impressed Ninja Tune so much they gave him his own Counter Records imprint. And on the evidence of this first five-track ep, no wonder"
OMM - HOT TUNES
"Trippy, sexy, wickedly produced, deeply psychedelic glam rock"
MIX MAG
"A timeless glam racket from LA based Levi."
MUSIC WEEK - PLAYLIST
"This English born, L.A based multi-instrumentalist comes across as a convincing `modern T-Rex'....forthcoming album `The Return To Form Black Magick Party' should easily break him to a (deserved) large audience'
*****DMC UPDATE
"Rockabilly-tinged mentalist rock....astoundingly good"
WHAT'S ON
`Fully tremendous rock and roll soul...his gigs are things of craziness and wonder"
WORD
"A solo master of psych-glam-garage-blues-rock"
"debut EP 'Blue Honey' is one of the most infectious yet mind-blowing things you'll have heard"
"new psychlord on the block whose densely layered acid glam anthems are what Aphex Twin would sound like if he played astral rock'n'roll instead of techno"
TIME OUT
"..plays the sort of snake-hipped glam boogie that Kings Of Leon might if they'd spent the summer locked up in Noddy Holder's cellar"
NME
`Sugar Assault Me Now is no tiresome pastiche. From the moment the piledriving drums steam into the buzzsaw guitar, it's a blaze of discordant glory. The hint of S&M in the lyrics is simply the icing on the cake.
MUSIC WEEK
"Definitely a one off"
ONE WEEK TO LIVE
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