DRINK HUNTERS “With My Crew” Discos Rayados DR.014
Release date: December 2011
Running time: 34:40, 13 tracks
Release date: December 2011
Running time: 34:40, 13 tracks
The long awaited debut album by the Catalonian band Drink Hunters is here: “With My Crew”. The band is running fast and nobody can stop them: a top-notch 4 track demo released in 2009, one song on the Tribute to the Mahones album in 2011, a 13 track album at the end of 2011 and a track on the upcoming compilation Paddyrock Vol. IV.
“The Real McKenzies sans bagpipes” (a term coined by Chris Toler) are offering a great album: all of the tracks have been written by the band. If you were waiting for some standards or the odd Californian punk cover, you were wrong. The influences keep on being Bad Religion and NOFX, but Drink Hunters’ own material is so strong that they don’t need to cover other bands.
Lyrics deal with booze, critics to the consumer society, the police, crime …. Sometimes they are a little bit hedonistic, but there is also a lot of fun. For instance “She was 56”, a song about a young man falling in love with a MILF.
Apart from that number, the highest moments on the CD are the well known 4 songs from their demo (“It’s in Your Hands”, “Drinking Song”, “In My Head” and “Warrior Souls” and brilliant new numbers like “Fucking Cops”, “All Night Drunk” and “Molly Never Sleeps Alone”.
Fiddle and accordion arrangements are excellent. I feel that the quality of the band is very, very high and they deserve to be produced by a top international producer. If they are able to work with a foreign producer and to improve their lyrics, their worldwide fan base will increase at a high rate.
Given that no other band in the world is playing such intense Californian punk with a Celtic twist, I won’t be surprised if the band gets a deal with a label from the other side of the ocean and the album is licensed there.
In the meanwhile, e-mail the band and grab your copy of “With My Crew”
Tracklist:
01) Welcome to Happiness
02) It’s in Your Hands
03) I don’t Need You
04) Fucking Cops
05) All Night Drunk
06) With My Crew
07) Drinking Song
08) Scum
09) In Your Paradise
10) She Was 56
11) In My Head
12) Warrior Souls
13) Molly Never Sleeps Alone
To buy the CD, contact the band:
Review by Kinksmarkham
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