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Review: 'Courettes,The'
'Here We Are'   

-  Label: 'Damaged Goods Records'
-  Genre: 'Punk/New Wave' -  Release Date: '16.7.21.'-  Catalogue No: 'DAMGOODS5356CD'

Our Rating:
This re-issue on Damaged Goods, is of The Courettes first two albums together on one cd, or separately on colored vinyl, the first album Here Are The Courettes is in Mono and the second album We Are The Courettes is in Stereo. The band themselves are a Danish and Brazilian duo with the odd guest and the albums were recorded and produced by Kim Kix from Powersolo and mixed with help from Nikolaj Heyman.

Here Are The Courettes bursts out of the speakers with the lo fi trash rock of I've Been Walking with some great fuzz guitar blasts set against Flavia Couri's sultry garage punk vocals.

Go! Go! Go! has all the urgency a song with that title should have and sounds like it should go with some teen trash drag racing film as sound tracked by someone like The Diaboliks.

Money Blind has great echoey drums as Flavia sings about a woman who is Money Blind and gets into the scrapes that might imply with a real Hellcats vibe to it.

The Boy I Love takes a very familiar garage rock riff and girl group sound and just crackles and rams home it's message about The Boy I Love, this has a Garage rock Shangri La's feel to it and the guitar solo just sizzles with intent.

Push It Too Hard features Kim Kix on vocals and Flavia on screams so that this ends up sounding like The Cramps as they tell each other not too Push it Too hard and the drum solo just emphasizes everything this is frantic and great garage rock.

I Wanna be Your Yoko Ono obviously opens with a long scream before Flavia tells us she wants to be the woman everyone hates, over the sort of super speedy garage guitar rampage that just rams home the vocals deliciously as she then tells us she wants to be Brigitte Bardot too!

Shiver! Is about getting the shivers of anticipation when a certain guy knocks at the door rather than the Dt's style shivers of cold turkey, as she's ready to crawl across the floor for you, over a song that's as raw as early Pandora's.

Here Are The Courettes ends with We Are Gonna Die another super speedy garage trash monster that makes certain that our time is limited and to get on with living that has Kim Kix providing some animalistic additional vocals and howls to the mix.

We Are The Courettes may be Stereo but sounds equally low-fi garage rock as Hoodoo Hop goes all swamp rock B-Movie Juju laden howlathon.

Time Is Ticking is about the slowest tune they play and with Flavia's girl group backing vocals this is another very Shangri La's style song of love and lust.

Come Inside is more frantic garage madness with buzzing guitars and no trace of any Cilla influence thankfully as she begs you to Come Inside so she can scream in pleasure with you rather than Step Inside.

Nobody But You is an impassioned plea to the one that she just has to dominate and have as her one love, to the sound of those fuzz laden guitar and pounding drums and amazing howls and yelps.

T-C-H-A-U is a howl of pain for the mistreatment she's received as she uses the Brazilian version of Ciao to give him the kiss off, damn the guitar gets properly freaky.

Strawberry Boy is more of a 50's style sappy love song for the boy of her desires, this is slowed down and about the sweetest song on the cd.

Voodoo Doll features special guest appearance from Coffin Joe on this very Seeds style garage rocker with Coffin Joe cackling in the background as the Voodoo Doll tale unfolds and leads into a filthy sax solo from Fred Roller that helps give this a Mondo Bizzarro feel to it.

All About You keeps things nice and trashy with the odd hint of damaged glamour as she tells him just how selfish he's been on another Pandora's meets The Diaboliks style song.

The Way You Walk is one of many things that annoy her about the way you behave as the guitars batter you and she lets you know she's not about to shed any tears.

The Teens Are Square is about as accurate a statement as they come these days as compared to those of us that were teens in the 70's and 80's yes teens really are square, this has super frantic drumming a good few screams and a singalong garage punk tune.

Boom! Dynamite! Somehow sounds even more low-fi than everything else as they go and get properly drunk on a Saturday night this is a drinking song to go and get explosively drunk too.

We Are The Courettes closes with Fool Fool Fool a slow love song that reminds me a bit of Angel Corpus Christi as the bitter regrets are explained and my only regret is not knowing about The Courettes sooner as I'd love to see them playing live at The Dirty Water Club or similar garage rock night.

Find out more at https://www.thecourettes.com/ https://damagedgoods.co.uk/discography/the-courettes-here-we-are-the-courettes/ https://www.facebook.com/courettes

  author: simonovitch

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