This Band Will Self-Destruct In T-Minus

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The highly anticipated and way overdue second album from Sacramento, CA freakbeat legends TH LOSIN STREAKS has finally landed in the sweaty palms of Slovenly Recordings, and we couldnt be more gassed! This Band Will Self-Destruct in T-Minus finds Th Losin Streaks regrouping after a devastating break-up in 2010 six years after the release of their debut LP Sounds of Violence teaming up once again with long time friend and producer Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Blind Shake, Ty Segall) for the sole record he agreed to produce in 2018 the same record proclaimed by mastering engineer Tim Warren (Crypt Records) to be The best American tribute to Freakbeat ever made. Lets be frank for a moment here: what this aint is the simplistic and primitive Streaks garage stomp of yore. This band has stumbled upon a sophisticated formula that relies far less on the 1-4-5, as the new Order of the Day finds our veteran hipsters in all-out mod-mode, propelled by ace-face Mike Farrells freshest and most inspiring melodic tattoo to date youll swear its the searing cacophony of shagged-out Limey teens dosed on a fistfull of vitamin E, kicking out a wall of twistable scree front and center at a liquid light show in early 90s Madchester. Genius maniac drummer and fellow MONKS fanatic Matt K. Shrugg works in two hairy shots of beat-punk snarl as a composer / vocalist on this outing, monking up a mutated version of the Complication riff on Falling Rain, and you can bet your Beatle boots it was his call for the lone cover of ultra-obscurity You Cant Keep a Good Man Down by Brooklyn no-counts The Jagged Edge. Band leader slash rhythm axe maestro Old Man (Tim) Foster is on rave-up duty here, knocking out four surly tracks of pure 1960s rage. Fosters partner Stan Tindall, from zebra-clad garage neer-do-wells THE TROUBLE MAKERS, is back on the bass, laying down a bottom so thick and soupy youll be scraping it off of your face until the release of the next Losin Streaks long player, so apologies if youre waiting as long as you did for this un, but its a good look, kook!