The
Rippers – Better The Devil You Know (Slovenly Records)
The self-professed bastard sons of early Rolling
Stones and Pretty Things, Sardinian freak-beaten rock ‘n’ rollers, The Rippers
latest LP, “Better The Devil You Know” speeds through eleven garage-encrusted
numbers in a little over 30 minutes.
Featuring Ripper I: drums, Ripper II: bass, backing vocals,
Ripper III: lead guitar and Ripper IV: vocals, harmonica and rhythm guitar,
their sound mixes influences from garage rock, psychobilly, punk and early ‘60s
English blues. Put together they produce a sonic mayhem that not only
encompasses their aforementioned heroes but others too, including Them,
Crazyhead, The Meteors and just about any band featured on the Nuggets record.
Add to that a pop deliverance that suggests a similarity to The Hives, and their
all too knowing trajectory will inevitably find fans enamoured with much of the
above.
Willsk
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