While he’s still a relatively new contributor here at Über Rock, it seems Jase Walker pigeon-holed himself a small bit for having a bit of a thing for anything remotely synthy; and in our defence we’re not wrong. So, when something lands in our review box that’s labelled as “guitar driven synth pop”, our boy is all over that, which is what brought L.A. Takedown’s ‘Our Feeling of Natural High’ to his attention…
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Fancy having your head ripped off by an angry Viking, who consequently grabs your decapitated skull by the hair, rams it up your arsehole and pulls it back up through your body, replaces it on your severed neck, spits in your mouth and bids you welcome to Valhalla, where they’ll be playing football with said skull for the rest of eternity? Well, that is the sort of effect you’ll feel when the first riff of this, the debut EP from north eastern rockers Spiders From Saigon, pummels itself fist-first into the bridge of your nose, commanding you to sit up and pay attention otherwise you will receive the punishment due…
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We all probably wish we could turn back the hands of time to our respective youths, and relive the period when we were growing up, without a care in world, without the hassle of mortgages, pension plans, paying for our own children’s education – a time when our only concern was where our next big rock ‘n’ roll hit was coming from. Well, that is exactly the ethos behind this, the debut EP from a guy by the name of Rob Richardson (who may be known to old-school ÜR readers as the one time drummer in Heaven’s Sake), who is seeking to recreate the era where we from the bubblegum pop of Bay City Rollers and The Sweet to the hard rock attitude of AC/DC and the Headbangers Ball playlists of da Crue, Poison, WASP and their ilk.
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John B thinks this album might have been written with the express goal of him liking it. This is everything that he looks for in a thrash /death metal album. He just wishes it was longer than an EP. It has both retro and modern elements both brought together to make an epic album that is just fun to listen too. He found himself going back to this one a lot more often than he normally does when reviewing an album, and thinks this album will be a hit for many people.
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The retro sound seems to be something de rigeur at the moment, and the latest act to turn the clock back the heady days of the Eighties, when you couldn’t escape rock music on the radio or TV ‘cos the stations in the know actually played the fucking stuff, are Finnish glamsters The Ragged Saints, who have come storming back after an extended hiatus with this compelling new collection, just released via our friends at the ever consistent AOR Heaven label.
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