DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
Ire Works
(Relapse)

ROSETTA
Wake/Lift
(Translation Loss)

OM
Pilgrimage
(Southern Lord)

SICK PORKY
Ancestral
(Zonda)

RED LIMO
Soulful Attack EP
(Self-Released)

AUTOMATIC 7
At Funeral Speed 

(Mental)

DON'T MESS WITH 
TEXAS
Los Dias de Junio

(Moonlee)

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I am usually totally confident as to whether I like a band or not within the first song. But this one took me a while. I wasn’t sure and that made me nervous. There was something to Red Limo’s music that got my attention, but there was also something utterly distracting. I was attracted because my love for garage rock is almost blind, deaf and kind of dumb. But I was distracted because the recording was much too shitty. Don’t get me wrong; I like crappy, but by that I mean lo fi, caustic, rustic, vintage, cheap and of the nostalgic kind.  Not shitty. Soulful Attack EP, production wise, sounds almost shitty; as in small, tiny, reduced to microscopic and kind of ridiculously proportioned by merits of a laser beam.

The drums for instance are tiny and are buried neck deep by the guitars, which alone don’t sound all that great either. They kind of sound like a cheap guitar sounds when you don’t make wise use of any effects and simply plug it to one of those children size amps they sell at Toys R US. We’ve seen great music made with instruments like those, don’t get me wrong. I am not trying to come off as some sort of elitist fuck. I just like Soulful Attack EP, but have my doubts as to whether Red Limo is a band ready for recording. To me, the songs are a little half-cooked. But how can you tell when a garage punk song is not finished? A matter of taste, I guess.  Another thing with the recording is the separation that exists between the music and the vocals, it sort of reminds me of some of the early Germs material. I am only talking about the recording here though, because Red Limo is more of a classier affair. Hence the band name and the band’s presence.  It almost never gets any simpler than this. Let’s face it, had this been any simpler, it would have been unrecordable.  These are four quickies usually played at a frantic pace, (with the exception of “Sugar”), and the almost charming spoken swagger Kevin Terrell.  I’d say Red Limo have a bigger future than their actual present seems to show. It’s just a matter of taking the time to perfect the craft. However disheveled this shall be.

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