{"id":13801,"date":"2020-11-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13801"},"modified":"2020-11-07T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T17:45:41","slug":"mud-city-manglers-give-me-the-hammer-beluga-records-ghost-highway-records-spaghetty-town-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=13801","title":{"rendered":"Mud City Manglers – ‘Give Me The Hammer’ (Beluga Records \/ Ghost Highway Records \/ Spaghetty Town Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>To be honest I know bugger all about the Mud City Manglers. I picked up their debut album \u201cHeart Full of Hate\u201d a few years ago off of eBay having read about them on Facebook and thought that I’d missed the boat on another great band from the turn of the century but I was wrong…….. they’re back (or perhaps they never went away).<\/p>\n

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It’s only taken 20 years for these Pittsburgh rock & rollers to release a their second album but was it worth the wait? Hell yeah !!!!<\/p>\n

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\u201cGive Me The Hammer\u201d drags you into a world of melodic Motorhead via the crunch and choruses of New Bomb Turks and Scumbag Millionaire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Way It\u2019s Gonna Be\u201d and \u201cHangover Hurricane\u201d have a strong Nashville Pussy vibe, which is no bad thing at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of These Days\u201d notches up the ferocity. Lyrics are spat out with venom. These sure ain’t love songs.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBetter off Dead\u201d dials down the speed but not the attitude. Another tail of desperation and debauchery.\u00a0\u00a0Half way through the hell ride, side two kicks into gear with \u201cBring It Down\u201d. There’s almost\u00a0 a fucked up Sunset Strip feel to this bad boy. Faster Pussycat would have killed for a tune like this back in the day. \u201c Armstrong Park\u201d doesn’t let up the pace much either, it’s kind of got me thinking of The Throbs but more nasty.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCheater Bar\u201d is full on Motorhead or maybe melodic Zeke (if there is such a thing).\u00a0\u00a0\u201cOne More Mile\u201d is takes you right back to Pussy Town. It’s not only a stand out track on this album but it could’ve been a stand out track on \u201cLet Them Eat Pussy\u201d too.\u00a0 Blain-tastic mate!<\/p>\n

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\u201cHammered\u201d is an angry Orgasmatron. An exercise in controlled frustration rolled up in monologue with a message \u2013 \u201cBe the motherfucker who is unwilling to play along, be the mother fucker who calls them out on their shit…\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ten tracks in and \u201cJump into the Fire\u201d throws it all up in the air with a throbbing bass giving way to a banging riff \u2013 the spirit of The Five is alive and well – \u201cwe can make each other happy!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

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So there you go…. the wheel has not been reinvented and nor should it. It’s taken Mud City Manglers twenty years to release \u201cGive Me The Hammer\u201d and it’s a shit load better than \u201cChinese Democracy\u201d. Go and listen to it on Bandcamp and if you’re feeling flush hop over to Spaghetty Town Records, Ghost Highway Records or Beluga Records a grab a copy before it’s too late.<\/p>\n

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Give Me The Hammer a listen on band camp whilst the limited orange pressing of 100 sold out instantly on pre-order but the traditional chunk black plastic (limited to 400) is still available from\u00a0 Spaghetty Town Records in the USA along with Ghost Highway Records\u00a0and Beluga Records in Europe.<\/p>\n

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Europe buy Here \/ Beluga Records<\/a>\u00a0or Here \/ Ghost Highway Records<\/a><\/p>\n

USA buy Here \/ Spaghetty Town Records<\/a><\/p>\n

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

To be honest I know bugger all about the Mud City Manglers. I picked up their debut album \u201cHeart Full of Hate\u201d a few years ago off of eBay having read about them on Facebook and thought that I’d missed the boat on another great band from the turn of the century but I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2685,6064,168,6023,5900,2241,6024],"class_list":["post-13801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-beluga-records","tag-fraser-munro","tag-ghost-highway-records","tag-give-me-the-hammer","tag-mud-city-manglers","tag-spaghetty-town-records","tag-stockholm","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801","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=13801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13920,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801\/revisions\/13920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}