Sugarmen - Dirt (Poor Old Soul Records)
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| Sugarmen - Dirt |
Release Date: 13th June 2015
How about this for a musical CV
then: Mick Jones produces your new single, Paul Weller invites you for a string
of support slots on tour and Blur have you as one of their support acts on
their Hyde Park bill in the summer. Not bad for starters, eh? Liverpool lads
Sugarmen trade in a lip curled, dead-eyed garage-punk style of indie that
buzzes and fizzes in all the right places. New single 'Dirt' is a direct cousin
of the Ramones and grew up with Catfish & The Bottlemen kicking cans around
the backstreets in beaten up Converse trainers. The strangled guitars, thudding
drums and chugging bass all set things up nicely for a vocal delivery that has
that Liverpool gang spirit but a downtown Brooklyn attitude and a sense of,
well, a sense of 'fuck you' about them. Even without the connections mentioned
at the beginning of this review I'd be predicting very big things for these
lads as the sheer arrogance and self-assuredness of this two and a half minute
slice of gloriousness demands greatness. Nay, it expects it.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/sugarmenuk?fref=ts
Live Dates:
22nd - 24th May - Dot to Dot Festival
20th June - Supporting Blur @ Hyde Park Festival, London