Blast off! A new album out yesterday from Melbourne trio Primo! made up of members of Shifter. It races from the traps on the first and maintains its jittery, giddy momentum without missing a step to the last.
This is familiar stuff. Think Girls at Our Best, Mo-Dettes and Dolly Mixture and so forth. Splendid things all, and Primo! do the legacy proud, each of the song checks in between one minute and three and seems perfect for a John Peel session in the early Eighties.
Does it matter that virtually every note of this could and probably was put out over thirty five years back? Not to me. Because it's all done with unwavering freshness, melody and nous.
On a week when I came upon four or five albums that floated my boat, Primo's Amici, is up there with any of them. All three band members chip in throughout on harmonised vocals. In some ways there's something of the ethos of early Ramones here. As Charles Shaar Murray wrote about that band: 'it's like eating peanuts, cherries or smarties. You can never have just one.'
As an appetiser for the forthcoming Goon Sax album, coming out in Autumn, it's perfect. Primo! (note the exclamation mark, it's wholly apt), are coming to Europe to tour and those who see them will surely love them. All for one!
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