- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: Howlies
Album: Trippin' With Howlies
Label: Over Under Records
Playtime: 43:40 min
Genre: Indie
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Rip date: 2009-04-11
Street date: 2009-02-03
Size: 68.42 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 214 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Let's face it. Howlies aren't reinventing the wheel with their debut
full-length, Trippin' with Howlies, but they never meant to. If anything,
they set out to reinvent themselves by hanging up the straight, college-rock
angle of their prior incarnation, Moresight. The album opens with "Sea
Level," a super-charged rock and roll anthem that winds, arcs and spirals
with catchy hooks and a concise pop design, timeless in its execution.
The decision to bring producer Kim Fowley (the Modern Lovers, Runaways, the
Germs) on board was instrumental in pushing Howlies' songwriting to a new
strata of pop. In the wake of the wanton melancholy of "Smoke" or the
post-modern theme song "Howlies Sound," it's easy to draw comparisons to the
Ramones. But it's more fitting to drop names like Josie and the Pussycats, or
closer to home, Baby Shakes. Howlies are the male answer to the both,
although they're a bit rougher around the edges. The songs on Trippin' are
mostly about hooking up with girls, pining over the ones with whom they've
blown their chances, and coordinating their efforts to sway new ones.
Each song is a night in the life of four cocky dudes prowling through bars,
slapping high-fives and bumming money for drinks every step of the way; and
it's a lot of fun to follow along. "Adaptation" is a snarling, hook-laden
rocker laced with anti-working-class complacency. "Dirty Woman" is a
ramped-up, three-chord assault that boils rock and roll to its base elements.
Trippin' with Howlies is the first step in establishing Howlies' identity not
as revolutionaries, but as a band of bro's learning the ropes of crafting
fast and fun rock and roll.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Sea Level ( 3:19)
02. Smoke ( 4:27)
03. Howlies Sound ( 2:26)
04. Sweet Denise vs. Road Rage Rhonda ( 2:52)
05. Chimera ( 3:46)
06. Walk On Home ( 1:54)
07. Angeline ( 4:11)
08. Adaptation ( 3:27)
09. Whiskey Night ( 2:52)
10. Dirty Woman ( 2:27)
11. Aluminum Baseball Bat ( 5:30)
12. (Do The) Natural Thing ( 6:29)
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