Album Review: Killer Hearts - "Skintight Electric"
Barrelling out of Houston like some leather clad eight legged scuzz machine, the fact that the Killer Hearts look like the sort of truly evil ne'er-do-wells who usually make the best sort of rock 'n' roll on the cover of this album was a promising start. However, there's been quite a glut of bands sounding like this landing on the Nite Songs review desk in recent weeks and the pressure's on for them to deliver in the face of the increased competition. So do they? Well, almost. The main influence here is definitely the Dead Boys with the Stiv-indebted vocals and switchblade guitars marking out pretty clearly where the Killer Hearts' influences lie on songs like Get Some and Savage Heathen . There's a bit of a tip of the hat towards underrated '80s LA scuzzballs the Joneses in places as where. The trouble is that while other bands of this ilk we've reviewed of late like the Chuck Norris Experiment, the Bitch Queens and the Poison Boys have all been...