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The Rolling BlackoutsBlack Is Beautiful Love Police/Reverberation The Rolling Blackouts know where it's at. The name, for a start: of course it makes sense to steal part of your name from one of the greatest rock bands of all time! And the 'Blackouts' bit, well, traditionally 'black', right or wrong, has always been associated with 'menace'. The title, meanwhile, is pure cocky swagger, in the best tradition of cocky swaggering rock bands: "yeah," it implies, "we think we're fucking good". And, for the most part, they're right. The Rolling Blackouts come strutting out of a US garage co-owned by The Stooges and Rocket From The Crypt armed with fat slabs of rhythm guitars and edgy blues riffs wot they took from Led Zep and Free. Somehow, it works. Like any self-respecting garage band they shout rather than sing, and I have no idea what they're shouting about but I'm fairly certain it's nothing to do with poverty and world peace. There are also ooh la las and swooning oooohs all over the place keeping things catchy. Think Fu Manchu with a shitload more melody and you're there. The Rolling Blackouts are on the boutique Reverberation label run by You Am I drummer Rusty Hopkinson. Rusty knows a thing or two about garage bands, and if Rusty thinks these boys know what time it is, then you better believe they do. There's an opportunity here for a bad pun about The Rolling Blackouts causing a power shortage in your speakers 'cause of their volume, but we haven't got time for that - you should be on yer bike getting a copy as we speak.  |
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