Album Review: Deathtraps - “Stole Your Rock ‘n’ Roll”

 

Okay so hands up, this isn’t exactly a new album. But after Deathtraps well and truly stole the show on last Saturday’s Singles Bar, I was determined to investigate the band a bit further and discovered that they released an album which just to say falls within our unofficial “no reviews of stuff that’s more than a year old” remit. So what the hell, let’s do it.

Anyway, Stole Your Rock 'n' Roll is Deathtraps' second album and right from the Erotics-style opener Fall Out Of Love which takes aim at Internet attention seekers with lyrics like "Let's make a suicide pact and do it for a laugh/Let's use some naughty words, I'll be offended on your behalf".

It pretty much continues from thereon in with hints of everyone from the Hip Priests through Turbonegro and Motorhead to pre-shark jump Wednesday 13 on the likes of the self-explanatory Fuck The Cool Kids, the frenetic Blood Shots and Backstabbing For Beginners and the brilliantly scuzzy self-promotion of the title track. And anyone who's ever spent time playing the toilet circuit week after week will no doubt be able to raise a smile at the lyrics of Play The One We Know.

Deathtraps are most definitely exactly the sort of wrong-side-of-the-tracks badasses that always seem to make the best kind of rock 'n' roll and Stole Your Rock 'n' Roll comes highly recommended by us. Get the ridiculously strong booze in, cue it up and enjoy.

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