{"id":12933,"date":"2020-10-01T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12933"},"modified":"2020-09-29T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:40:20","slug":"the-lurkers-sex-crazy-damaged-goods-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12933","title":{"rendered":"The Lurkers &#8211; &#8216;Sex Crazy&#8217; (Damaged Goods Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mail-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12934 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mail-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mail-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mail-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mail-4-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mail-4-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mail-4-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mail-4-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After having a right good chuckle at the cover artwork here it was down to business and right from the kick-off the chug of that riff and a rock-solid pound of &#8216;Fits You Like A Glove&#8217; it was a right proper meaty punk rock showdown happening.\u00a0 right through to the catchy chorus you&#8217;re singing along and punching the air.\u00a0 there&#8217;s something about this here punk rock malarky that draws you in for a lifetime of &#8220;oh yeah that feels good that does&#8221; and The Lurkers who&#8217;ve been around a while I might add certainly know a trick or two and as far as openers go this ones catchy, meaty and a right good tone-setter.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the GLM album four years ago when it was released, My God was it really four years ago? Wow well, they&#8217;ve spent those four years well knocking together this set of banger.\u00a0 There isn&#8217;t any new ground being trodden and the path they head down is well worn but it seems much like Cock Sparrer on &#8216;Forever&#8217; it seems these old punks can teach them young guns a few new tricks; when I say tricks I mean they can teach &#8217;em how to write a good solid tune. &#8216;London Jeepster&#8217; is another melodic toe-tapper.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The title track has the feel of the more recent Subs albums its focussed and powerful with a great sympathetic production from the formidable hands of Pat Collier.\u00a0 Pete Stride said in an interview that &#8216;The Boys In The Corner&#8217; was autobiographical and it&#8217;s a measured look down memory lane but not in a cheesy way at all, no sir, Its got a bit of punch to it and sounds like one of those end of set drinking songs that middle-aged (cough cough) punks like\u00a0 This ones spot on.<\/p>\n<p>If you want rockers then &#8216;Approaching System Overload&#8217; the bands (eco-awareness number) will service your needs whilst\u00a0 &#8216;High Velocity&#8217; is a right punch up featuring guest vocals from Danie Centric from The Feathers. To be fair this is a really solid set of thirteen songs with variety and a cheeky grin here and there from the opener to the Ramones like &#8216;Electrical Guitar&#8217; via the cool &#8216;Doll No.5&#8217; and the booze-soaked &#8216;The Boys In The Corner&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for another &#8216;Fulham Fallout&#8217; or &#8216;Gods Lonely Men&#8217; then you might not find it here but you will find a band full of energy and a fistful of top tunes for these weird times we currently find ourselves in and another gawp at the artwork will give you a good giggle as well.\u00a0 Get on it you wasters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Buy &#8216;Sex Crazy&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/damagedgoods.co.uk\/discography\/the-lurkers-sex-crazy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Lurkers-243674112460296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelurkers.co.uk\/?fbclid=IwAR3IdDMxlbTInirtjMaxwKIqrPVLoWDbEwY_bDRrDVkTEsEMpWhA1mlS9oU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having a right good chuckle at the cover artwork here it was down to business and right from the kick-off the chug of that riff and a rock-solid pound of &#8216;Fits You Like A Glove&#8217; it was a right proper meaty punk rock showdown happening.\u00a0 right through to the catchy chorus you&#8217;re singing along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[259,5579,5538],"class_list":["post-12933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-damaged-goods","tag-sex-crazy","tag-the-lurkers","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933","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=12933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13153,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933\/revisions\/13153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}