Nite Songs

  Something of an oddity among the legions of power-pop bands on Rum Bar records, Miss Georgia Peach is an old school country singer who we were introduced to here at Nite Songs via her Do You Know What Love Means?  single last year. Backed by various off-duty members of Nashville Pussy and Nine Pound Hammer, Aloha From Kentucky  takes the tried and tested '50s country template, straps a power-pop rocket to its back (not quite heavy enough to be cowpunk but packing a definite kick) and comes up with something pretty good. The defiance of the likes of Big Iron Skillet  and Don't Come Home Drinkin'  show an fierce feminist anger behind them while the softer Dolly-indebted likes of Adam Neal Waltz  and Don't Stay Away  show a more tender side to Peach's oeuvre. The music is commendably tight here with the wiry boogie of Back Side Of Dallas  rubbing shoulders with the slow-fast dynamics of I Gotta Know . A good two thirds of this album consists of cov...

  This month has seen us having a bit of a decks-clearing exercise at Nite Songs so there's quite a bit of stuff to go through - see below for the stuff we couldn't quite cram into Part 1. Part 3, consisting of EP's and mini-albums coming later this morning. *** The prospect of a new  Riskee & The Ridicule   album in 2022 is definitely an enticing one and we've got a new three tracker  Too Young To Be Blue  (🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑) from them this month. It gets off to a slow start with lead off track Young & Beautiful  sounding a bit awkward and sluggish but the Idlesesque gammon-bashing B-side Blue Jacket  is better and a new version of previous single Backwords 2 turns out to be the strongest cut here with its righteous fury. A bit hit and miss but still well worth a listen.  Bandcamp Link A four track EP consisting of four different bands? Now there's something to get every mid-'90s indie kid who remembers the early days of Fierce Panda etc feeling...