{"id":13633,"date":"2020-10-17T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13633"},"modified":"2020-10-13T22:32:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T22:32:05","slug":"the-carvels-nyc-live-at-the-cutting-room-die-laughing-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13633","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Carvels\u00a0NYC –\u00a0‘Live at the Cutting Room’\u00a0(Die Laughing Records!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How about starting your album sounding like Alison Gordys Blonde & Blue jamming the Ramones oh hang on that’s exactly what this sounds like from the wailing saxophone to the Thunders lite sloppy guitar playing to the 50s \/60s girl group vocals.\u00a0 Unashamed and fabulous.\u00a0 What’s not to like?\u00a0 It’s down n dirty Garageland rock and roll. Sure this record is totally\u00a0Influenced by NYC’s original punks (Blondie, Ramones, Heartbreakers), 60s girl groups (The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las), with a drop of\u00a0Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground\u2019s\u00a0for the cools \u2013\u00a0The Carvels NYC\u00a0have got it going on.<\/p>\n

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The Carvels used producer\u00a0Freddie Katz, and had it mixed\/mastered by\u00a0Jim Diamond\u00a0(White Stripes, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) so they stacked their cards up pretty good before hitting the studio but at least along with all the vital ingredients they remembered the Sax and stuck it front and center.\u00a0 What’s on offer here is a whole bunch of sloppy Punk n roll old school playing without a care in the world, it’s pop songs with a tonne of melody and parking lot harmonies through the medium of punk rock 77 NYC style and songs like ‘My Little Troll’ is two minutes of fun with some sexy sax wailing in for a solo.\u00a0 It’s also a bit racey and in a rush like on ‘Lonely Fantasy’ you keep wanting to shout ‘Trash’ because it’s that sleazy Dolls like trashy. It reminds me a bit of bands like the X-Ray Spex as well because they also saw the value of the saxophone is in the mix as a Rock and Roll essential.<\/p>\n

They even manage to throw some shade on covid deniers and no maskers with the fantastic ‘Stay The Fuck Home’.\u00a0 There should be a van rolling around every town in every country blasting this out from a hailer on the roof.\u00a0 Nail head hit!<\/p>\n

I’d put this in the same ballpark as the misfits project 1950 for style as they race through ‘Darling Where Are You’ in all its trashy sleazy splendor – It’s loud – its Rockin’ and it’s fun what else can you ask for in these strange times? There is time to slow things down and ‘Candy Says’ has a certain downtown about itas the band kick back and chill just for a moment.<\/p>\n

They remember to throw in some handclaps but not one single bead of a cowbell which is disappointing. Hey, you can’t have everything so I’ll take this just as it is.\u00a0 Big, loud, trashy, and sweet-sounding punk rock n roll NYC style. Job done.<\/p>\n

Stream\/buy\u00a0Live at The Cutting Room<\/strong>\u00a0HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0 Website<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How about starting your album sounding like Alison Gordys Blonde & Blue jamming the Ramones oh hang on that’s exactly what this sounds like from the wailing saxophone to the Thunders lite sloppy guitar playing to the 50s \/60s girl group vocals.\u00a0 Unashamed and fabulous.\u00a0 What’s not to like?\u00a0 It’s down n dirty Garageland rock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1332,5968,1898,5971,4144,978,5967,5969,5970],"class_list":["post-13633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-blondie","tag-die-laughing-records","tag-heartbreakers","tag-lou-reed-the-velvet-undergrounds","tag-ramones","tag-rock-n-roll","tag-the-carvels","tag-the-ronettes","tag-the-shangri-las","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13633","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=13633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13637,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13633\/revisions\/13637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}