{"id":16110,"date":"2021-08-13T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16110"},"modified":"2021-08-10T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:30:07","slug":"the-erotics-ride-it-to-death-ep-vile-vinyl-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16110","title":{"rendered":"The Erotics \u2013 \u2018Ride It To Death!\u2019 EP (Vile Vinyl Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This music reviewing lark is easy when the media you get sent for review is as consistently badass as the output from Albany ne\u2019er-do-wells, The Erotics. I\u2019ve been throwing the longhorns in the band\u2019s direction for the majority of its 20+ years of decibel debauchery and, happily, it seems like there is little chance of this runaway musical muscle car slowing down any time soon.<\/p>\n

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With infamous producer Don Fury (Agnostic Front, Madball, Sick Of It All) once again at the controls of an Erotics release, \u2018Ride It To Death!\u2019 is a five-track extended player that pushes every button required by fans of the band\u2019s back catalogue whilst also managing, somehow, to up the aural ante. Just like the rat rod that graces the band photography on this new EP, this is a straightforward rock \u2018n\u2019 roll framework embellished with all manner of crypt-cool accessories, thereby fashioning something unique and dastardly desirable. That, my friends, is The Erotics.<\/p>\n

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Opening track, \u2018When The Wolves Are Howlin\u2019, is a pure Eighties throwback that circles around a surprisingly melodic riff before transforming into a typical fang-in-cheek Erotics horror-drenched stormer that is guaranteed to appear on the soundtrack to a lycanthropic B-movie before the sun rises. You won\u2019t be surprised to read that second track, \u2018Scream Like A Demon\u2019, doesn\u2019t stray far from the wrong side of the tracks; infectious, biting guitar work strutting around a typically dark, despicable theme.<\/p>\n

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The EP\u2019s title track is a full-throttle, high-octane, scuzzed-up workout that is part classic KISS, part classic Aerosmith, by way of Death Race 2000. This is akin to prime Eighties stadium rock… if the stadium was created by John Carpenter circa \u2018Escape From New York\u2019. It\u2019s the EP\u2019s fourth track, though, that might just be the standout cut. \u2018Bless Your Heart\u2019 is a swaggering rock \u2018n\u2019 roller that echoes The Dogs D\u2019Amour at their raucous best; Mike Trash (who is in fine voice throughout this whole EP) channelling Tyla and in doing so fronting one of the band\u2019s finest tunes of recent times. That said, there isn\u2019t the slightest whiff of a weak track on this five-tracker; closer \u2018Can I Sit Next To You Girl\u2019 another hook-smeared exercise in effortless, retro-fuelled sleaze rock \u2018n\u2019 roll that is as wicked as it is darkly life-affirming. Yes, we need bands like The Erotics \u2013 some people haven\u2019t realised it yet (fuck me, they\u2019ve had enough time!), but as long as us cool kids have then this spinning rock doesn\u2019t seem like such a bad place to be stuck on.<\/p>\n

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One complaint \u2013 five tracks just aren\u2019t enough! In this form I want a fifteen track Erotics record \u2013 keep everything crossed for the near future. Summing up, the only people who claim to love rock \u2018n\u2019 roll yet don\u2019t like The Erotics would have to be either allergic to truly cool bands or someone with an agenda \u2013 like a reviewer who developed a grudge against the band for pathetic reasons at some shitty festival, and, let\u2019s be honest, who cares about their opinions anyway? Long live The Erotics!<\/p>\n

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

This music reviewing lark is easy when the media you get sent for review is as consistently badass as the output from Albany ne\u2019er-do-wells, The Erotics. I\u2019ve been throwing the longhorns in the band\u2019s direction for the majority of its 20+ years of decibel debauchery and, happily, it seems like there is little chance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6966,6967,2113,263],"class_list":["post-16110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-ride-it-to-death-ep","tag-vile-vinyl-records","tag-gaz-tidey","tag-the-erotics","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110","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=16110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16308,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16110\/revisions\/16308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}