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The MonstersHide And Seek Off The Hip/MGM Swiss rockers The Monsters are straight out of the Twilight Zone and no matter whether you love them or hate them, you'll definitely remember them. They'll scorch themselves into your musical memory and haunt you in the dead of night - or you'll hit the eject button three bars into track one. 'Hide And Seek' is compiled of tracks from three previous albums, arranged in no particular order as a taster from their ten year history for a new (Australian) market. Tracks like I'm Always Wrong, The Love I Never Had, and I've Got The Brain Up My Ass are full of energy and guts. Voodoo Love, Digging My Grave and Go Away And Fuck Yourself give you an idea of their general, Jerry Lee Lewis type of attitude: wild, out of control, craziness and hot on teenage sex allusions. Frontman Bert-man's voice comes from the grave, a black, sickly, angry, growling noise; this singing isn't just ugly, it's been exhumed, still warm. Behind this is a raw, fuzzed out backing band, featuring the 'clone drum' - two drummers bashing the same bass drum from both sides. It's rooted in fifties style rock and roll, only it's better and it's now. The whole band is themed in their fifties rock suits, kitschy poster girls and logos, the whole fifties Americana vibe underpinned by an obsession with dark, dark things. As the cover says "noise rockin' terror trash garage mayhem 60's punk dance music". What more can you say? This is probably how Bill Haley plays in hell.  |
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