#181/1346 LISTENING POST ADMIN DISCOVERY
May 22 1986
That Petrol Emotion
Manic Pop Thrill
Genre: Garage
4.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Fleshprint
Can’t Stop
Natural Kind of Joy
It’s a Good Thing
Mouth Crazy
The title says it all.
Yet another band that, since I was getting older and about to enter the “real world” I was phasing out of music discovery. This is garage rock that went to a shoegaze concert, got drunk, woke up with an hangover and started recording.
And when it’s not bashing the hell out of it’s songs, they channel early Squeeze on “Natural Kind of Joy” and remind us all what was missing from latter day Difford and Tilbrook.
This stuff is way out of time. I mean, it’s definitely OF it’s time but, instead of being slavishly adherent to the 60s or any other predecessors ala Fleshtones, Flesh Eaters or insert-garage-rock-revival band name here, That Petrol Emotion is pushing the medium to it’s edges.
I loved this. Every second of it. If I was a music supervisor I would be putting “Cheapskate” into every montage scene of millennial workspace employees brainstorming on deadline.
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