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| Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster Horse of the Dog (No Death) Eighties Matchbox… hail from Brighton and on this debut album they have created a 25 minute incendiary post punk record that chronicles the underbelly of Britain’s back streets. First single celebrate your mother recalls Joy Division at their most frantic, a dark driving rhythm section, and frenetic solo is brought to life, by singer Guy McKnight’s crooning vocals. The lyrics are similarly in your face as McKnight belts out lines like “I wanna celebrate your mother it’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do well” and ”I wanna fuck your mother “. Elsewhere “Psychosis safari” sounds like the sweaty churning come down from excess drink and drug taking, the repetitive riff and repeated refrain of “your feeling my way through the dark, but you cant get up” Comparisons with The Door’s and Nick Cave’s old band the Birthday party are evident on tracks like “Giant Bones” and the ”Charge of Guns” that sound like the Doors on speed,coupled with the heavy heart of British cynicism. This is a excellent record that resembles the soundtrack to a seventies erotic horror film, whilst fusing it together the excellence of early Joy division. You wont hear a darker more visceral version of post punk this year, Eighties Matchbox B-line disaster may be more explosive live but on record their driving dark songs worm their way into the recesses of your head for days. Bill Cummings. |
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