Single Review: Lazybones – ‘Trash Talk’.

Arterial crushing and bubblegum throb. Babydoll fibres and kinderwhore punk. The tenderised splendour of gristle and sinew… It leaks like a slick oil from sweat-sullied pores.

This track excretes nothing but dirty and mean from each glint of glorious distortion. Each welt and each wail, each tanglewire stitch, every movement of brawn built assault; they spill, spit and slither on gravel and glass and it rips at your raw underbelly.

I can’t get enough of the of the bass guitar buzz that gets amped up and ramped to unnatural highs. I can’t tell you the joy of a drum sound that pounds like it’s trying to smash holes in the ground two floors down. Throw in an organ that underpins violence and a vocal that carves up a larynx, and I’m in a bliss of glossed garage trash that thrashes against its own ego .

So I might have a thing for those vocals, that sick-too-cute screech of Sleigh Bells, Hole, You Want Fox, Daisy Chainsaw and those early Japanese Voyeurs singles. And I might have a thing for that blues organ sound, especially when un-blused and gritted. But here in the crush of the noise and the heat of that compressed guitar-stealing bass sound, those things get thrown back to that cool Nu York glam that I grew up to learn from and love.

Yes you could argue it’s pressed and produced, but that’s just their penchant for 60s girl-pop and punk shouldn’t have to be uniformed. And yes you can argue it’s throwaway splatter, but that’s feral exuberance at work. What you can’t argue with is the rush – the adrenaline tension and the force of the feel of a band pushing hard at full throttle.

Bottle it, savour it, catch while you can… I’ll write more when I see them next week.

‘Trash Talk’, the new Lazybones single is out today on all online platforms.

As always this track and highlights from other rats On Run featured artists are right here on Rats On Run Radio.