Album Review: The Chats - "Get F**ked"

 

Rising out of the back alleys of the Sunshine Coast, the Chats basically make Amyl & The Sniffers look like King Crimson in terms of musical simplicity with Get Fucked being the follow-up to 2020's High Risk Behaviour. It's pretty clear very early on that not much has really changed in the world of the Chats with the opening four tracks 6Ltr GTR, Struck By Lightning, Boggo Breakout and Southport Superman zipping past in a little under six minutes.

To be fair, there's the odd attempt by the Chats to break out of their two-minute-thrash-punk straitjacket such as the mid-paced Price Of Smokes which could almost be the weird missing link between the Cockney Rejects and Wire or the I Wanna Be Your Dog indebted Emperor Of The Beach but what generally carries this album through is that the Chats are just very good at what they do which is simple no-nonsense heads down thrash as evidenced on Ticket Collector, Panic Attack and Out On The Street while the frenetic I've Been Drunk In Every Bar In Brisbane comfortably wins the best song title award on this album.

In short, if you liked the first Chats album then you'll like this one as well and...well, if you didn't then this probably won't change your mind. But there's often an argument for not messing too much with a winning formula and when you're as good at it as these guys are, it still makes for a hell of a fun half hour white knuckle ride. Well worth investigating if this sort of thing floats yer boat.

Bandcamp Link

NITE SONGS RATING: 🌔🌔🌔🌔🌔🌔🌔🌔🌑🌑 (8/10)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sounds From The Junkshop #18 - Heavy Stereo

Image
  "So here's to a happy landing, wherever we're fallin' to..."  - Heavy Stereo  - Cartoon Moon , 1996 Let's be honest, it all started to go wrong for Oasis when they started to swallow the "new Beatles" hype wholesale. Well that and when they started developing a worrying predilection for tedious blues jams but that's a whole other story. I blame Paul Weller meself. The thing about Definitely Maybe was, y'see, yes there was definitely a Beatles influence there (I mean on the likes of Live Forever and Up In The Sky you can't really miss it) but there was so much more going on there as well. On that one, the Gallaghers owed arguably more to the '70s glam stomp of T-Rex and Slade ( Cigarettes and Alcohol for the former, Rock 'n' Roll Star for the latter) or the scuzzy sneer of the Pistols ( Bring It On Down ) than they did to the Fab Four. Their critics may have derided them as such but a Lennon & McCartney tribute band ...
Read more

Garbage Days Revisited #90: Soho Roses - "The Third And Final Insult" (1989)

Image
  "If you won't love me then I'll find someone who will!"  - Soho Roses  - So Alone The Soho Roses were a classic case of right band, wrong time. If they'd broken on to the scene in the last few years then they'd have had a ready made audience on the 21st century power pop scene and probably be regulars at Some Weird Sin and similar club nights in the Smoke. The reality? They broke through towards the tail end of the '80s and got lumped in with the dying embers of the Soho glam scene, leaving behind one sadly underappreciated album and a few EP's before self-combusting. In a way, I sort of see the Roses as a British version of Enuff Z'Nuff. Not so much in terms of their sound but more of the fact that they were a group crowbarred in with glam who weren't really a natural fit there and kind of paid the price for it - I've always thought Enuff Z'Nuff sounded more like a Britpop band with flashbomb guitars than a hair metal band. Oh sure, ...
Read more

Sounds From The Junkshop #46 - Bis

Image
  "If it's not worth pretending then I don't wanna know..."  - Bis   - Eurodisco There's an argument that we should possibly have covered Bis a bit earlier in SFTJ some time around the entries for 1996 or so rather than now as we enter 1999 as this was when they had their biggest success and their five minutes of infamy. Bursting on the scene just as Britpop was at its peak, their none more lo-fi aesthetic which harked back to a decade before brought them plaudits and derision in pretty much equal amounts. I remember my younger sister absolutely loved them and I ended up borrowing her copy of the group's debut album New Transistor Heroes  mainly just to see what the fuss was about. Although it wasn't deserving of some of the scathing reviews it got, I thought it was good but not brilliant. Certainly Bis were very much a Marmite band with the keyboard bleeps, wannabe-cutesy lyrics about sweetshops etc and screechy vocals putting a lot of people off but in a...
Read more