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Get
your ears ready to be fellated by a no holds barred
zero-bass, no-fat-bottom punk rock attack of pure
stridency. Man, will this German band will have you
reaching for the earmuffs faster than you can say
Achtung! It’s pure stuff. Undistilled. Underproduced.
Relentlessly annoying and insipidly fast.
Destroy
Create does as it preaches and it will have you
crouching in the bundle position just as you’d do if you were
about to get punched by King Kong. Lights Out!’s sound
is not big per se, but it rolls you over like a madmen
at the wheel of a Yugo. Shoot, this sure as hell is now
BMW! No, no German engineering here. Just a rowdy bunch
of assholes donning headbands, Adidas shorts and some
cheap ass guitars.
I tell you
what I like about this band. I like the fact that I hated this
recording for the first five spins. But it’s grown on me. The
melodies have come out. The stridency has receded. The songs
have taken shape and the melodies are clear. The upbeat pace of
the songs and the flagrant panache of Lights Out! is making
sense now. Their idea of punk rock is definitely an early one.
Not to sonically link them, but to a point, this band reminds
me of the Dead Boys and the formative era of punk rock. Except,
back in the 70’s no one was allowed to go this fast.
And fast
they go. Lights Out! could sound like a hardcore band to the
wrong ears. Or could have come out of a European OI show. As
such, this is the type of band who could gig around with a wide
array of bands and still destroy. These are early and raw
sounds. I dig it.
A couple of years ago Dead Beat put out an
album by another German band called Dean Dirg. These guys remind
me of them. There is definitely a common a esthetic in between,
from the almost wrong fashion sense to the vociferous rock
music. This sounds just like the punk rock I came to love as a
youngster.
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