{"id":27334,"date":"2025-11-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27334"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:33:31","slug":"electric-boys-shady-side-of-town-ep-mighty-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27334","title":{"rendered":"Electric Boys – \u2018Shady Side Of Town\u2019 EP (Mighty Music)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following on from the release of their 8th studio album \u2018Grand Explosivos\u2019 in 2023, Sweden\u2019s finest exponents of funk n\u2019 roll, Electric Boys, return with a four-track digital-only EP made up of songs recorded in the same sessions. These are songs that were left to one side for whatever reason, the band feel these songs were too good to be left unheard and are sending them out into the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve not heard Conny Bloom and his boys since their Funk O Metal Carpet Ride days, you may be surprised to find they are a harder rocking machine than they were in the late 80\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years of being on the road, and a stint for Conny and bassist Andy in the reformed Hanoi Rocks at the turn of the century, has given the band a new lease of life and a harder, groove-heavy 70\u2019s rock sound. Over the course of the last decade, they have released a series of quality albums and toured them extensively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opener \u2018Head Honcho\u2019 has a signature groove, with some tasty licks and that familiar sultry Conny Bloom vocal that leads to a stadium-sized chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next up is \u2018Grand Explosivos\u2019, and it leads me to wonder why this was not included on the album that shares its title. It\u2019s a killer tune to be fair, with an almost mariachi feel to the verses and a bombastic rock chorus. It fits the eclectic and commercial feel of the last album. I guess it just shows the high quality of the songs on offer, that this was left by the wayside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Looking For Vajayay\u2019 is pretty cool too. It rides along on a heavy bass groove, has some crazy ass horns going on, but lacks a catchy chorus, feeling like more of a jam than a finished song. That said, it certainly warrants repeated plays, and you won\u2019t be hitting that skip button anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closer \u2018Keep It Dark\u2019 takes things up a notch, it features the vocal talents of guitarist Martin Thamander, who comes on all Paul Stanley here, which adds a different flavour to the Electric Boys palette. It’s a strong closer to a groovy set of tunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band claimed these songs were too good to be left unreleased, and they weren\u2019t wrong. They stand tall against the songs already released on \u2018Grand Explosivos\u2019 and are the perfect companion. While it\u2019s a shame it is only a digital release, \u2018The Shady Side Of Town\u2019 EP is a worthy set of songs to add to any playlist.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Following on from the release of their 8th studio album \u2018Grand Explosivos\u2019 in 2023, Sweden\u2019s finest exponents of funk n\u2019 roll, Electric Boys, return with a four-track digital-only EP made up of songs recorded in the same sessions. These are songs that were left to one side for whatever reason, the band feel these songs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6750,1787,1818,1681,1680,2052],"class_list":["post-27334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-electric-boys","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-new-album","tag-rpmnews1","tag-rpmonline","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27334","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=27334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27361,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27334\/revisions\/27361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}