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MT 065EP
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The Dum Dum Boys' new four-song EP was born under the sign of fuzz: The one-chord fuzz stomp of "Do the Nothing" (a brand new nihilist dance), the fuzz glam of "Come on Now" (Gary Glitter meets the Scientists), the fuzz boogie of "Blame It on the Boogie" (a dancefloor hit, but only in freaky discotheques), and -- another one-chord song! -- the fuzzy amphetamine rush of "Ridin' Down the Highway" (Guitar fuzz! Bass fuzz! Organ fuzz!).
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MT 056LP
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The best Dum Dum Boys album yet?! Yes! All their different styles on one record, from fuzzy and thrashy songs to heart-breaking ballads, from noisy to electronic, from exciting rock n' roll to hypnotic pop, from ultra-short and fast tracks to long and moody ones. An "Up Side" with fast, short, and noisy songs, full of fuzzes and screams and electrifying rhythms. And a "Down Side" with mid-tempo, moody, dark songs, dirty synthesizers, rhythm machine, and languid guitars. (But both sides are equally ultra-intense, edgy, noisy and primitive sounding.) Recorded in an abandoned slaughterhouse(!), mixed in a hot and damp basement, in a raw and primitive way with everything put in the red, like a mockery to modern technology. It's not just a return to the garage, it's back to the cave! And if it wasn't such an old worn-down cliché, there should have been written "play it loud" in huge letters on the cover because that's the way you should listen to this record, the way to really go Up & Down With The Dum Dum Boys.
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MT 030LP
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What does a rock 'n' roll group do, when it is "out of ideas"? Break up? Throw in the towel? Of course not; instead, they make a covers album. That's what top beat-group Dum Dum Boys have done on this, their latest long-player Dum Dum Boys Play All Your Favorite Songs. But, perverse as always, Dum Dum Boys weren't content to just crank through the usual assortment of quality unknowns and monster hits. Instead, they gave an actual infant the task of picking -- completely at random -- the songs for the group to record. That's right, a child, an actual ingenue (its name irrelevant) who knows nothing about anything, chose the songs for the group to record from someone's record library, whilst blindfolded and dreaming about a video game. This child -- its identity a secret to protect it from possible reprisals -- picked 50 songs for the Dum Dum Boys to attempt, of which 12 were determined to be worthy of proliferation. Here they are: a jumble of juvenilia, an eclectic electric mess: Dum Dum Boys Play All Your Favorite Songs, 12 idiosyncratic and surprising covers of Hawkwind, Kim Fowley, Bryan Ferry, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Glitter Band, James Brown, Depeche Mode, The Jackson 5, and more.
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MT 022LP
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Glam-fuzz, noisy-fuzz, free jazz fuzz, punk-fuzz, psyche-fuzz; the whole spectrum of Dum Dum Boys influences passed through the filter of... fuzz! Electrified!, the tenth album from France's number one fuzz rockers, may very well be their best yet. Ten songs, seven short and fast ones, one long hypnotic rocker, à la MC5, and two surprising and daring covers of Art Ensemble Of Chicago's "Theme De Yo Yo" and Archie Shepp's "Blasé". Electrified! was recorded live to keep their raw and wild side, but includes overdubs to maximize their minimalism by adding synthesizers, organ and horns on three songs and... more fuzz! 35 minutes of pure excitement.
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