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The Surgens are a wonderfully warped collision of the finest, worst and most cynical twisted music of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s, somehow hot welded together in Beefheart like arrangements to create a raucous retro tinged concoction of dirty old rock’n’roll, country, blues and surf that make them sound like they’ve "fallen straight out of a Tarrantino movie" Blues Matters Magazine.
Wielding old guitars, harmonicas and lap steels screaming through 50’s amplifiers to the back drop of musical saws and unmusical washboards, deep twang and rumbling drums it’s no surprise that The Organ magazine have described The Surgens as "A kind of White Stripes for Captain Beefheart fans who like their country blues a little twisted and scuffed around the edges" and Sleazegrinder have likened the band to "the house band on that Mississippi steamer drinking on the Devils tab"
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The most surprising thing about this elemental slab of countrified rhythm and blooze is that the Surgens hail from the deep south of England but are steeped in hoodoo gumbo rockabilly sleaziness to an nth degree. Wearing their influences on their sleeves they nevertheless manage to conjure up a vital sounding set of mainly self penned songs that never fall into the revivalist or tribute band trap. A six piece band with a full bodied guitar sound augmented at times by lap steel, washboard, musical saw and vocals that at times recall David Thomas of Pere Ubu's intensity they roar and prowl all over the blueprint drawn up by the likes of The Cramps, Thee Headcoats and Tav Falco.
There's barely a duff track here, opener "Twisted Brain" is a testosterone fuelled Cramps like bloodfest, "my baby's got a twisted brain, I found it hanging in a train, I put it in a bottle next to the others, I think I might be losing my way." Dumb lyrics but the visceral delivery runs away with any litcrit notions. Next song "Mean Cheatin' Man" continues in the same vein but the band stretches out and their command of dynamics is evident here with passages that lower the attack but retain an inherent menace. The album ends with their best song, "Drunken Angel," a hymn to booze, dope and music that swaggers along in a fashion akin to Alex Harvey in his more burlesque moments, a debauched tango that closes what is an extremely handsome disc.
There's barely a duff track here, opener "Twisted Brain" is a testosterone fuelled Cramps like bloodfest, "my baby's got a twisted brain, I found it hanging in a train, I put it in a bottle next to the others, I think I might be losing my way." Dumb lyrics but the visceral delivery runs away with any litcrit notions. Next song "Mean Cheatin' Man" continues in the same vein but the band stretches out and their command of dynamics is evident here with passages that lower the attack but retain an inherent menace. The album ends with their best song, "Drunken Angel," a hymn to booze, dope and music that swaggers along in a fashion akin to Alex Harvey in his more burlesque moments, a debauched tango that closes what is an extremely handsome disc.
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