Sunday, August 25, 2019

Song(s) of the Day # 2,043 Black Mekon


For a band who have called their latest record Destroy Nostalgia masked Birmingham duo doesn't  half sound like something the MC5 or The Stooges might have served up in Detroit in the late Sixties.


Stir in The Cramps, Rocket from the Tombs, Destroy All Monsters and Jon Spencer and you'd have a pretty good idea of what's going on here. Black Mekon throw plenty of classic Rock & Roll shapes, all black leather and guitar posing. They do it well enough to not turn the whole shebang into cabaret but lack enough tricks of their own to make this something really exceptional.


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