Boe Weaver - Boe Weaver
Listen, if you will, with your mind’s ear to the sound of Dick Dale teaming up with The Stooges to soundtrack 70’s Blacksploitation and porn flicks with a sideorder of garage psychedelia. If you can do this then you are somewhere near imagining what the world of Boe Weaver sounds like. It’s all scratchy, valve amplified guitars, surfy riffs, strange sci-fi sounds and a mighty funk, the like of which would turn Prince purple with envy.
First track, ‘Deadpan’, kicks off with a killer break, some lovely fuzzy keys, weirdy nonsense vocal noises and a right spooky tune. This quickly segues in to ‘Ghouls’, the first single from the album and you can see why, it’s a cracker. A stomping, 60’s psyche pop rhythm underpins some great slide guitar work.
Further high points are provided by ‘Monster Maker’, where the guys add some strut to their funk, and then ‘Jelly Bean’, a subtler affair that rolls on like a cop car chase through downtown New York.
With every track on the album clocking in at four minutes or under it really has an old fashioned feel to it. The sounds are authentic, the vibe is spot on and I defy anyone to listen to this record and not find a great big grin creeping across their face. I suspect this is very much going to be the soundtrack to my spring.
Top Tracks: 'Ghouls', 'Monster Maker'.
Released March 22 on VU