THE FEELIES CRAZY RHYTHMS 180 GRAM BLUE VINYL - LIMITED EDITION RELEASE OF 1000
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Even the cover is a winner, with a look that screams new wave via horn-rimmed glasses, even more so than contemporaneous pictures of either Elvis Costello.
But if it was all look and no brain, Crazy Rhythms would long ago have been dismissed as an early-'80s relic.
That's exactly what this album is not, right from the soft, haunting hints of percussion that preface the suddenly energetic jump of the appropriately titled "The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness." From there the band delivers seven more originals plus a striking cover of the Beatles' "Everybody's Got Something to Hide" that rips along even more quickly than the original.
The guitar team of Mercer and Million smokes throughout, whether it's soft, rhythmic chiming with a mysterious, distanced air or blasting, angular solos. But Fier is the band's secret weapon, able to play straight-up beats but aiming at a rumbling, strange punch that updates Velvet Underground/Krautrock trance into giddier realms. Mercer's obvious Lou Reed vocal inflections make the VU roots even clearer, but even at this stage of the game there's something fresh about the work the quartet does, even 40+ years later with a good blend of past and present, rave-up and reflection.
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