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Hot Lunch is a punk n' roll band from the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area that specializes in getting loud, getting weird and getting rad. The quartet's unique blend of brown-acid skate-rock and wah-fuzz proto-metal was born in the bowels of skatanic rituals, biker beer busts and wizard staff meetings. With a head-bludgeoning sound that refuses to take sides (and showers), Hot Lunch are on a hell-bent mission to create the best party soundtrack in the history of all music.
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HPS 193CD
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Heavy Psych Sounds give new life to the Hot Lunch self-titled debut masterpiece, originally released in 2013. Kicking off in prime, amped up MC5 style with "Handy Denny" it's clear that Hot Lunch are out to grab you by the nuts like a pit bull and keep squeezing until this album has wrung you dry. Within the first two songs the band have ripped their way through more riffs that the first two Black Sabbath albums put together and there is no let up from here on in. "Ripped At The Seams" opts for a tight but loose Blue Cheer style grind with Eric Shea's manic vocal delivery evoking John Garner at his most deranged in the early days of Sir Lord Baltimore. Other bands that Hot Lunch tip their hats to through the course of these nine tracks, to varying degrees include the spastic blues of The Groundhogs, the theatrical intensity of The Alice Cooper Band, the raw, soulful blast of Grand Funk Railroad, the explosive crunch of The Who through to the trippy psychedelia of The Doors -- albeit without an incoherent drunken pub singer fronting them. It isn't all noise though. The epically lengthy "Lady Of The Lake" displays a level of tenderness with a lightly folky vibe, not too dissimilar to Sir Lord Baltimore's "Lake Isle Of Innisfree". The brief "She Wants More" blasts in a fog of boogie that makes Foghat look like Barry Manilow, Shea barely maintaining his breath and composure as he rages through the lyrics. "Tragedy Prevention", like many of its predecessors pitches from riff to riff with wild abandon and even features what sounds like a Vox Organ to paint extra sonic textures.
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HPS 193LP
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LP version. Heavy Psych Sounds give new life to the Hot Lunch self-titled debut masterpiece, originally released in 2013. Kicking off in prime, amped up MC5 style with "Handy Denny" it's clear that Hot Lunch are out to grab you by the nuts like a pit bull and keep squeezing until this album has wrung you dry. Within the first two songs the band have ripped their way through more riffs that the first two Black Sabbath albums put together and there is no let up from here on in. "Ripped At The Seams" opts for a tight but loose Blue Cheer style grind with Eric Shea's manic vocal delivery evoking John Garner at his most deranged in the early days of Sir Lord Baltimore. Other bands that Hot Lunch tip their hats to through the course of these nine tracks, to varying degrees include the spastic blues of The Groundhogs, the theatrical intensity of The Alice Cooper Band, the raw, soulful blast of Grand Funk Railroad, the explosive crunch of The Who through to the trippy psychedelia of The Doors -- albeit without an incoherent drunken pub singer fronting them. It isn't all noise though. The epically lengthy "Lady Of The Lake" displays a level of tenderness with a lightly folky vibe, not too dissimilar to Sir Lord Baltimore's "Lake Isle Of Innisfree". The brief "She Wants More" blasts in a fog of boogie that makes Foghat look like Barry Manilow, Shea barely maintaining his breath and composure as he rages through the lyrics. "Tragedy Prevention", like many of its predecessors pitches from riff to riff with wild abandon and even features what sounds like a Vox Organ to paint extra sonic textures.
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HPS 193S-LP
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LP version. Mustard yellow vinyl. Heavy Psych Sounds give new life to the Hot Lunch self-titled debut masterpiece, originally released in 2013. Kicking off in prime, amped up MC5 style with "Handy Denny" it's clear that Hot Lunch are out to grab you by the nuts like a pit bull and keep squeezing until this album has wrung you dry. Within the first two songs the band have ripped their way through more riffs that the first two Black Sabbath albums put together and there is no let up from here on in. "Ripped At The Seams" opts for a tight but loose Blue Cheer style grind with Eric Shea's manic vocal delivery evoking John Garner at his most deranged in the early days of Sir Lord Baltimore. Other bands that Hot Lunch tip their hats to through the course of these nine tracks, to varying degrees include the spastic blues of The Groundhogs, the theatrical intensity of The Alice Cooper Band, the raw, soulful blast of Grand Funk Railroad, the explosive crunch of The Who through to the trippy psychedelia of The Doors -- albeit without an incoherent drunken pub singer fronting them. It isn't all noise though. The epically lengthy "Lady Of The Lake" displays a level of tenderness with a lightly folky vibe, not too dissimilar to Sir Lord Baltimore's "Lake Isle Of Innisfree". The brief "She Wants More" blasts in a fog of boogie that makes Foghat look like Barry Manilow, Shea barely maintaining his breath and composure as he rages through the lyrics. "Tragedy Prevention", like many of its predecessors pitches from riff to riff with wild abandon and even features what sounds like a Vox Organ to paint extra sonic textures.
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HPS 193LTD-LP
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LP version. Transparent splatter green neon/red vinyl. Heavy Psych Sounds give new life to the Hot Lunch self-titled debut masterpiece, originally released in 2013. Kicking off in prime, amped up MC5 style with "Handy Denny" it's clear that Hot Lunch are out to grab you by the nuts like a pit bull and keep squeezing until this album has wrung you dry. Within the first two songs the band have ripped their way through more riffs that the first two Black Sabbath albums put together and there is no let up from here on in. "Ripped At The Seams" opts for a tight but loose Blue Cheer style grind with Eric Shea's manic vocal delivery evoking John Garner at his most deranged in the early days of Sir Lord Baltimore. Other bands that Hot Lunch tip their hats to through the course of these nine tracks, to varying degrees include the spastic blues of The Groundhogs, the theatrical intensity of The Alice Cooper Band, the raw, soulful blast of Grand Funk Railroad, the explosive crunch of The Who through to the trippy psychedelia of The Doors -- albeit without an incoherent drunken pub singer fronting them. It isn't all noise though. The epically lengthy "Lady Of The Lake" displays a level of tenderness with a lightly folky vibe, not too dissimilar to Sir Lord Baltimore's "Lake Isle Of Innisfree". The brief "She Wants More" blasts in a fog of boogie that makes Foghat look like Barry Manilow, Shea barely maintaining his breath and composure as he rages through the lyrics. "Tragedy Prevention", like many of its predecessors pitches from riff to riff with wild abandon and even features what sounds like a Vox Organ to paint extra sonic textures.
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