GUITAR WOLF
UFO Romantics (Ki/oon Records)
Reviewed by Alan Wright

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The first new Guitar Wolf CD in some years is fantastic. It shreds, with absolutely no instrumentals this time, and these guys started off as an instro band! It's all "sung" in crazed phonetic English, or a weird mix of English and Japanese by either Seiji or Billy. Okay, so maybe they take liberties here by completely rewriting "Little Latin Lupe Lu" as "Jet Beer," but musically this may be their best yet. While better produced than any previous efforts, it's still supercharged rock and roll with plenty of fuzz and distorted guitar solos, screaming, and a completely insane sound for the most part. It's like equal parts '50s rockabilly, '60s garage rock, and '77 punk, all wrapped up in a ready-to-explode ball of wax, or in this case, ball of, err, digital reproduction!

© 2003 - Alan Wright