Labels: Mangrove
Review by: Alex Deller
This one was billed as a garage rock take on Discharge, but truth be told it’s the rock n’ roll influence that wins out. The Vertigos play a scratchy, scrappy take on garage punk that’s high on manic energy and the kind of exuberant melodies that even a boombox production can’t quell. Things kick, stomp and clatter away to joyous effect, and with each member lending their voice to the melee there’s a sense of variety you wouldn’t necessarily expect from the three-chords-and-an-attitude set-up. Closing track ‘Messy’ chucks in some saxophone that lends things a bit of an X-Ray Spex vibe … a nice finishing touch to the 7″, and a tie with the catchy-as-heck title track for my favourite song here.