Labels: No Idea Records
Review by: Ian Cavell
This is the sister 7″ to the Picker / Moonshine release reviewed last month by Andy. As you’d expect, the packaging is very similar – lovely sepia tones, embossed logo and the record comes on brown swirly vinyl which, quite frankly, rocks. I was just thinking how great this would have been if they had made these two releases a 2×7″ gatefold type affair….and also how we get another No Idea review in which we spend the first paragraph gushing about the packaging.
Anyway – musically its more of the same… Members of Hot Water Music play a couple of acoustic songs which just have this amazing contrast between mellow acoustic guitar and big ol’ gruff HWM vocals. ‘Cursing Concrete’ is the very same track that appears on the essential No Idea sampler. Its easily the better of the two on this 7″ although ‘Saturn In Crosshairs’ is by no means lacking in quality either. Both take the bare ingredients of a song and pour a truck load of emotion over the top. The end result is pretty fantastic and practically leaves you drooling at the prospect of a Rumbleseat album.