The Bobby Lees Strike the Punk-Blues Jugular on Jon Spencer-Produced ‘Skin Suit’.
The Bobby Lees’ SKIN SUIT is oozing with sex, sweat, and joyful abandon. It’s a raucous ride from beginning to end. Cover to cover, this thing’s got you by the short hairs. – POPMATTERS HERE
Skin Suit is a raucous ride from beginning to end. Cover to cover, this thing’s got you by the short hairs. Quartin is the star and a light that you can’t seem to blink out, but the whole band is a well-oiled and furious blues-punk machine. – HIT MUSIC HERE
The Bobby Lees are a very young band from Woodstock NY and they play the garage punk blues with real fire and wild animal energy like they can hardly stop themselves. – ECHOES AND DUST HERE
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The Bobby Lees’ “Wendy” is a simmering slice of riot ‘n’ roll that could have come from the garage or the gutter but brims with punk attitude. – POPMATTERS HERE
The song is both a faithful rendition of Otis Redding’s classic song and an inventive, bluesy interpretation that feels feisty and modern. – GLIDE MAGAZINE HERE
The title cut from Australian garage rock/psych rock outfit Datura4’s latest LP, West Coast Highway Cosmic, is the dash-pounding, air keyboard, rocking freakout this generation has long needed but was too afraid to ask for. Built on sturdy rhythms, lysergic twists and turns, and a vocal hook that won’t soon leave you, this is the best of its kind since Deep Purple’s ‘Highway Star.’ – Jedd Beaudoin / POPMATTERS HERE
“Get Out” is an uptempo, rocking, middle-finger-at-full-mast sprint that owes equally to all band members. It’s a tough decision to choose either the crunchy chord progression or the Jerry Lee Lewis-esqe tack piano for track highlight. Paired with the closer, “Evil People, Pt. 1” (“Pt. 2” is on last year’s album—go figure), it makes for a very strong finish. Mariani sings a simple but poignant observation, “Some people are good people. Some people, they’re just evil.” This lyric, sung over a bed of deep organ sounds and flanged-out guitar, eventually makes way for the hardest riff of the album. Combined with additional instrumental fireworks and a decidedly prog-rock tone, it reveals a welcome dimension of West Coast Highway Cosmic and Datura4 in general. – BLUES ROCK REVIEW
