{"id":11088,"date":"2020-03-13T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=11088"},"modified":"2020-03-08T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T16:13:29","slug":"dealing-with-damage-ask-the-questions-little-rocket-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=11088","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Damage – ‘Ask the Questions’ (Little Rocket Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dropping this baby onto the virtual deck and what leaps out in opener \u201cStop everything\u201d<\/strong> is a sound grounded in the underground, hinting at punk, fuzzed-up rock \u201cala\u201d the MC5. Does it move towards the new genre that I seem to hearing about everywhere \u201cAction Rock\u201d, I don\u2019t think so, even though this will appeal to anyone with more than an affiliation to the underground. No, it draws on a much richer musical tapestry, but ultimately pinning your ears back and screaming \u201cLISTEN TO ME!!!!!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Next up \u201cNo Money, No Peace<\/strong>\u201d, moves up the intensity, there\u2019s a hint of the much-missed Stiv Bator\u2019s sneer, but blink and you\u2019ll miss it, this ain\u2019t prog in any way shape or form.\u00a0 Moving into \u201cHow much will this affect us<\/strong>\u201d and things get a darker heavier feel, that bass run holds you, before the guitar demands your attention, I really like this track it’s a real burner. \u201cWorlds within a world<\/strong>\u201d hits the raw fuzzed up psychedelia of the fuzztones, while at the same time kicking it up the arse, with that incessant punk underpinning.\u00a0 \u201cLanguage Lesson<\/strong>\u201d comes tearing out of the speakers, that iggy and the stooges madness taking centre stage, this is a blinder, but for once I\u2019d have liked it a bit longer!!, \u201cSlow Shadow<\/strong>\u201d, moves to a very different beat, more commercial? Dare I say? Yup, it would make a cracking single, this just drips fuzzed-out psychedelia, dropping into 13th-floor\u00a0elevators territory, complete with the space rock exit!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Process<\/strong>\u201d kicks in with a tasty Tribal drummed intro, before it takes off and moves you on a very different path, this is rapidly becoming a fave for yours truly. \u201cStrange Melody<\/strong>\u201d again revisits the psychedelic sounds of the sixties, but with an added pop sensibility reminiscent of The Only Ones.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s at this point you begin to realize how good an LP this is, crammed full of ideas, honing a musical heritage, taking hints of the past, reimaging them for a current listening audience. I\u2019m starting to drift here but I\u2019m as always thinking about how this will play out live and smiling to myself. Maybe these years Camden Rocks?<\/p>\n

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\u201cShark Bait\u201d <\/strong>again grabs you from the start, holding that crossover vibe, hinting at a more commercial line, there\u2019s an almost gothic Guitar underpinning and extra to this track.\u00a0 \u201cSome Colours<\/strong>\u201d, \u201cNo Barriers<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cThe People I see\u201d <\/strong>maintain the power and intensity, \u201cNo Barriers<\/strong>\u201d in particular mixing up the vocal style and again rapidly becoming a favourite, while \u201cThe People I see\u201d<\/strong> moving into territories held up by The Ruts.<\/p>\n

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Finishing up with \u201cFor Barbara Dane<\/strong>\u201d an acoustic gem with an underlying message, think The Kinks meet the Subways!!! Before the lp plays out with \u201cThe American Empire\u201d,<\/strong> I love this Hardcore blast and what a way to finish up a powerful LP from a band that I\u2019ll look forward to picking up on the live scene, and definitely an LP I\u2019ll be investing in.<\/p>\n

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Find Dealing With Damage at\u00a0<\/strong>WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0BANDCAMP<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0TWITTER<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0INSTAGRAM<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0YOUTUBE<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Nev Brooks<\/p>\n

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Dropping this baby onto the virtual deck and what leaps out in opener \u201cStop everything\u201d is a sound grounded in the underground, hinting at punk, fuzzed-up rock \u201cala\u201d the MC5. Does it move towards the new genre that I seem to hearing about everywhere \u201cAction Rock\u201d, I don\u2019t think so, even though this will appeal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4600,2039,4604,4601,4598,4605,4603,719,4608,4057,4599,2359,4602,4606,2044,4607],"class_list":["post-11088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-andy-myers","tag-camden-rocks","tag-done-lying-down","tag-ed-wenn","tag-james-sherry","tag-jerrybuilt","tag-k-line","tag-mc5","tag-melodic-punk","tag-nev-brooks","tag-paul-grier","tag-post-punk","tag-sink","tag-stupids","tag-the-fuzztones","tag-the-scum-children","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11090,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11088\/revisions\/11090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}