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 DEAD
CITY SHAKERS- Ship of Beggars (Zero
Youth Records) PSYCHO-Fuckin-BILLY, motherfuckers! I can easily
picture the sweat flying off these
Texas
cats as they crank this ripping audio candy right the fuck out. Musically,
they’re tight as a Chinese virgin, but I think I’d like this disc a
lot more if they had a lead singer who didn’t sound like a professional
wrestler. It’s not a deal breaker, but if somebody in the vocal realm
of, say, Jim Heath (Rev. Horton Heat) was leading the charge, I probably
wouldn’t be able to get Ship of
Beggars out of my heavy play rotation for a long time. My favorites on
Ship of Beggars include the
blistering “Payin’ Dues in Blood” and “
Dead
City
,” both of which just knock the fuck out of shit. The title track is
pretty damn good, too. Lyrically, the laid-back “Cliff’s Song,” the
tale of a hard-working, decent dude dedicated to his family, is
surprisingly poignant. And “Crimson Hands” is mildly disturbing but
also sort of feels like it’s scratching an itch at the same time. If you
pick this up, be sure to blast through the 10-odd minutes of dead air that
lead to the “bonus track” at the end. You’ll be rewarded with a very
fun instrumental that I’d most definitely include in the score of Pop.
1280 if it ever was redone as an American movie and I was putting the
soundtrack together for it. –Ben Hunter
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