Yes Taurus Trakker are back with a third album of low class west London Punk and roll recorded on an 8 track reel to reel for proper authenticity and mixed on an analogue desk by Dave M. Allen it was financed by a Pledge campaign that meant pledgers are now in possession of original paintings by Allison Phillips and other cool extra's.
The album opens with Dream Inspectors that keeps the bands normal garage punk sound and great lyrics as we all try to get away from the dream Inspector as David Wright's sax comes in and blows a hole in our minds a great solo over the backing vocals.
Upside Down and shake is all pop punk insouciance as they sound like the Flaming Groovies on a good day. You could almost dance like Mike Myers in Waynes World to this if it wasn't for the fact that someone's holding you upside and shaking you!!
Chicken Wings opens with a riff lifted from Hanoi Rocks and sounds nothing like the Kevin Coyne song of the same name as in this case Martin is the king of Chicken Wings and no they aren't the sort you eat, this is dark and dirty if you want it to be or just a glam punk stomper.
Motormouth is a punked up update of Chas and Daves rabbit but more about the sort of blokes you meet in pubs with verbal diarrhoea that just won't stop spurting rubbish at ya so you just need to blow some sax into their ears at top volume to hopefully shut them up, even if the chorus almost sounds like a taunt.
Mister B could be the tale of another drug dealer chasing you for the cash you owe for the product and of course he don't give a damn about you or anyone else except that cash. All over a cool garage rock backing.
Well we all need to spend some time with the guru of the blues and this isn't as bluesy as you might imagine but is good and low down and dirty shake at the form while not being a pastiche of the sort pedalled by Joe Bonamassa and his ilk as this has way more heart than that and another stonking sax solo so it comes across like Dr Feelgood or Eddie & the Hot Rods, not sure if Martin Muscatt is partial to a Milk and Alcohol diet mind.
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Hang On Levi is a plea for understanding from a friend for what mis-deeds you'll have to figure out yourself but it's the normal Trakker street drama and do they really have a rebel soul, well more than most as Mick Jones guitar kicks in to help take it to another place.
Queen Of Needlestuck is a paean to one of those people just stuck in a rut of her own making but with no idea how to move on from it.
Yup no arguments Tears Don't Fall In Outer Space a great garage rock stomp along as they kind of want to escape the ghetto on a rocket ship to the planet hip well you would wouldn't you, if it sounds like this I'm fighting for a place on that rocket ship. Oh and a great guitar solo in the middle too.
Wild Woman In a Small Town has been a live classic for a while and it's great to hear a recorded version of this great song about that yearning to be wild when all around you want conformity, go on stay wild and are they all talking about her behind her back she probably hopes so as she rises above the petty nudges and winks of disapproval she gets a classic. I think we all want to be friends with the Wild Woman in a small town.
The band will be playing an album launch show at the Alleycat club in Denmark Street London on the 31st July with Spizzenergi as support. If you didn't pledge to make this album happen in the first place then I can only urge you go and buy a copy from www.taurustrakker.co.uk now you won't be disappointed.
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