Melody free Mogadon-rockabilly in sledging slow-motion?
So goes my first impression of the second full length release from Kidderminster-born, London-based adventurers THE OUTDOOR TYPES (despite them looking more like would-be folk heroes than Teds)
However, if the air hangs heavy with the razor-sharp threat of fifties' style violence, opener and already-released single 'Curious Last Voyage' also has echoes of vintage Joy Division as does its' straightfowardly-titled successor 'Drinking Ballad'.
But with the outlook still undoubtedly 'noir', the OUTDOOR TYPES are back in tooled-up Teddy-boy mode with a throttle of the tremelo arm. their bury-the-melody philosophy still very much intact despite the frantic after-effects of several seamless-yet-psychotic shifts in tempo.
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During the livelier moments, the record sounds a bit like a collection of originally written (but very drunken) nursery rhymes - 'Revenger's Tragedy', 'Last Of The Great List Makers' - though there's nothing to detract from the ever-present air of psychotic menace.
In many ways 'It Is The Mercy' is a dark and atonal extravaganza, full of shameless and slurry renditions of simplistic songs, but delivered with real balls by creators who must have few inhibitions, if any at all.
Another fashionably short record (it clocks in at just 32 minutes and 21 seconds long), 'It Is The Mercy' is alive with blurry and blackened rock n' roll intent.
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