Amazing Poundcakes – “More Songs About Drugs and Whores”
The Poundcakes sent me this disc, and asked me to let them know what genre I thought their music fit into, because they have difficulty defining it themselves. I can’t help them. What I can do, however, is to enjoy the shit out of these 5 songs. And I can tell you about them, and urge you to seek out The Amazing Poundcakes and experience them for yourself. Take some intelligent songs about S&M, the drug dependency that is so prevalent in our society, Japanese sex hotels, child abuse, uncontrollable sexual desire and the various ways in which we all attempt to draw attention to ourselves; play them with a combination of garage/punk guitars, surf/punk drums and neo-folkie vocals; record the whole thing professionally, but not too professionally, leaving the warts and imperfections to remind us of the humanity of the musicians who are sharing a part of themselves with us; and then turn the volume knob up to 11, and you’ve got the Amazing Poundcakes. When a band can make you want to dance and make you think with the same song, that’s an accomplishment – and it’s just what the Poundcakes do with all 5 of these tracks. If you absolutely demand that I compare them to someone, I’ll say “Jonathan Richman”. But they are really very much their own band, with their own sound. This is as good a batch of songs as you’re likely to hear any time soon. Go to their website, email them, tell them that bmo sent you and that you want a copy of this CD. Do it now. |
