Lo-Fi Garage rock baby! The Shitdels started as Jordan Wayne’s bedroom project with his wife, Katelyn, shortly after they moved to Nashville from Memphis in 2015. A handful of the songs were leftover from Wayne’s Memphis garage/psych band The Blackberries (aka Whoa, Blackberries or just Blackberries) and the rest were kind of written/recorded in that vein. It’s fuzzy and the vocals sound like they were recorded in a bucket using a pair of headphones for a mic but that aside it’s a whole heap of fuzzy fun and songs like the swinging groovy ‘Hold On’ have a tonne of charm and the melodies are infectious. 

It’s authentic and has the ingredients such as the honking Farfisa Organ adding layers to the already chaotic sound but in a Fuzztones kinda way it all adds to the charm of what they’re trying to achieve.

The record isn’t going to overtax your brain because the average song length is about two minutes and the pace and tempo goes from swinging to groovy baby in the eblink of an eye its psychedelic and fuzzy and the backbeat are grooving all over the place. the Lo-Fi production creates a feeling of claustrophobia and chaos but the melodies are often sooo pop like ‘Electric Cars’ its a punk rock Devo on acid.

‘All I Wanted Was You’ sounds like it’s hanging on by a thread but has a tonne of charm. it sounds like they left the faders open for a bunch of mics that weren’t being used but thought fuck it it adds warmth. The record is gone in the blink of an eye and the band works best on the faster buzz saw tracks such as the title track that races with an insanely hypnotic melody.

To be fair it’s a real good album and when played loudly its a real buzz and you can get into the sound and feel of the record it is raw as fuck and that is part of the appeal and charm. Get involved in some real authentic garage fuzz rock and on that note add The Shitdels to the top of your list.

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