Van Dammes - Better Than Sex EP (VILD Recordings)
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| Van Dammes - Better Than Sex |
Release Date: Out Now
Garage-Punk coming straight outta
Helsinki having been originally formed in Brussels, anyone? Oh you better say
yes! Van Dammes are a bunch of Finnish boys who know how to have fun with six
strings and a bunch of tubs to thump. The opening track of this new EP,
'Vesna', is a shouty, thrashy, distorted tour de force of a garage tune with a
sweet melody running through the middle and a bass line that seems to be the
bastard child of a distorted bass guitar and a really cheap, early synth sound.
'At The Drive In' is more Ramones than, y'know, At The Drive-In - all one
minute and sixteen seconds of its sweaty, sneering existence. Sounding like
something between Fungus and Liam Lynch, 'Frank Tower' is up next and blasts
through the airwaves like an uncontrollable juggernaut covered in leather,
grease and cigarette smoke. Final track 'I Don't Know' is a piece of punk
infused defiance with that fantastic bass sound making a welcome return for our
aural delight. This EP is titled better than sex and it's pretty damn good but
I think that might be a bit of a stretch - it's probably slightly quicker than
sex though which is worrying in a whole lot of ways....
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