Jeff The Brotherhood – Heavy Days – Stolen Recordings – SR043 - ****

The title track of Tennessee's Jeff The Brotherhood's fourth album seesaws on a pulverising riff indebted to Hawkwind's Master Of The Universe.
The hoary acid pirates have become a legitimate source of plunder for a distorted three-string guitar and drums garage-psyche duo. Elsewhere Sonic Youth's surging rock fixtures are appropriated, their experimental fittings ignored, and Eighties American hardcore's punishing intensity and velocity are welded to unexpectedly sugary power-pop melodies.
The Tropics buries Phil Spector moves in a dense descending guitar part.
Now the kids can download all rock history instantly, illegally and free, anticipate more previously unimaginable crossbreeds such as Heavy Days.

(23/1/11)