Remarkably individually named Amsterdam band, singer and guitarist Chino Ayala, bassist Jasja Offermans, drummer Ferry Art and keyboardist Bart van der Elst. Together Indian Askin. They have a sound that probably merits the description groovy and fairly wallows in its own excess. Setting the controls somewhere between the trails charted by The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols twenty years back, a description in itself that may put many off. They're incredibly knowing in terms of what they do and this will probably turn off as as many as it draws in. I doubt if they care.
Anyhow, I enjoyed my time with their recently released second album Another Round yesterday. Sure they're a bunch of slightly empty poseurs but they have a sure sense of how to build a rollercoaster constructed on the rails of popular Rock and Roll culture. All in all a fun if tacky and lurid ride.
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