Following on from last years smash Back In Mono The Fabulous Courettes are back with this tasty 10" single with some Outtakes and re-recorded B-sides just in time for the band's latest UK tour this June. This has been produced by Soren Christenson and C.T.Levine and mixed by Seiki Sato in fabulous Mono and the band recommend playing it loud on bad speakers with a crappy stereo, I've failed on that front listening on my Tannoy speakers and Yamaha amp with a pro-ject deck is far too hi-fi, let alone the download on the 5.1 surround PC system.
Side One opens with the three previously un-released tunes the first of which is Daydream that's an old school One-away tune from I Got You Babe, re-worked and retooled into a song about wanting to be left to sleep and have that magnificent daydream that has the bands trademark Garage rock encased in some almost sumptuous strings that make it sound like a cross between Nancy Sinatra and The Ronnettes.
Tough Like That is insistent garage fuzz stomper with full on reverb/echo laden sound as Flavia tells us just how tough she is among all the whooping and hollerin.
Talking About My Baby is stripped back to its skeleton bones as a 60's girl group pop song as they break the formula and let Martin reply to Flavia his baby and her demands.
Last Dance With You is a slow smooch fest, to get as close to the one you want as you possible can, while sounding like it should have been played at a prom in about 1959.
Side two opens with Only Happy When You're Gone a Shangri La's style heartbreaker, as she wants you gone like yesterday.
Killer Eyes is a slice of Soda Shop pop, full of longing for that guy with the Killer Eyes who is at the centre of all the melodrama.
The Boy I Love is such a great one away re-working of The Locomotion into a primal slice of garage lust for that boy who on this version's guitar is slightly less like Link Wray's than on the original version.
The album closes with So What that was originally on a split 7" single with The Jackets that came out on Chaputa records. It's a garage goodie of indifferent love and a lack of material desire over a stonking guitar sound and some of the sexiest sounding So What's around to leave you wanting more.
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