1. Sittin' Pretty
2. MF From Hell
3. Lady
4. Harmonic Generator
5. What Would I Know
6. At Your Touch
7. Fink For The Man
8. In Love
9. You Build Me Up
10. Freeze Sucker
Not since the likes of AC/DC and Deep Purple
has rock music been so cool. Hailing from small town New Zealand,
The Datsuns are four blokes who like their jeans tight, their
hair long and their metal heavy.
Composed of growling riffs, desperately screamed lyrics and
whining guitar solos, The Datsuns' music harks very much back to the
'70s ethos of fast, mean and filthy. Opener Sittin' Pretty, with
its charging guitar lines, states the intention clearly - glam meets
Born to be Wild.
MF From Hell sees them plowing their favourite
musical furrow, hefty ACDC-mold riffs complete with obligatory Angus
Young-esque guitar solo, a huge and completely un-ironic finger to
the world.
A veritable biker bar of unadulterated rock'n'roll energy,
The Datsuns is one epic after another, each trying to out-rock the
one that came before. Harmonic Generator stomps along with
autonomous female backing vocals while What Would I Know and single I'm
In Love have their feet planted firmly back in pulsing AC/DC
territory.
All written with a completely straight face and with tongue
firmly out of cheek, it's a testament to the kind of music that noise
was invented for - abused amps and drum kits beaten to within an inch
of their life.
After years hidden away in the NZ wilderness, The
Datsuns aren't making this racket for any other reason apart from because
they love it. And what a damn fine racket it is.
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