Nite Songs

  We first heard the French Girls via their five track EP earlier in the year and this debut album of theirs (on Rum Bar records as the EP was) sees them building their sound nicely with a well-refined set of razor-sharp power pop, crashing through 10 tracks in just 22 minutes. We get three tracks from the EP - Crazy Yo! , Soda Pop  and Aerobicise plus seven newies here and similar to the Ramones or the Lurkers before them, they follow the same pattern of two minute blasts of power-pop with one eye on '60s garage rock and the other on the poppier end of '70s punk. Oh sure,  Independent Woman is a defiant slice of feminist pop-punk and is to be commended but for the most part, this is simplicity writ large with the likes of  Summertime  and Dude Rocker  sounding like some sort of righteous collision between the Donnas and Helen Love or maybe the Grease  soundtrack on a Tizer overdose. Admittedly, variety isn't exactly the French Girls' watchword with on...

  So here's part two of this month's Singles Bar featuring a few more singles and a trio of EP's as well, Plenty to get our teeth into so let's crack on pronto, eh? We last heard from Adam & The Hellcats  last year with the enjoyable  Welcome To The Madhouse  single. They have put out another one since in House of Straw  but honestly I wasn't that big a fan of it (sorry guys) hence why we didn't feature it on here. However, new effort  Bending The Knee  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑) is a big improvement sounding like some unholy collision between fellow Bristolians Vice Squad and the Sisters of Mercy at their most bombastic. A big stomping six-minute epic, this is a good taster for the upcoming Hellcats album due in April, Looking forward to it.  Bandcamp link here Split single time and this one is a bit of a mouthwaterer as Nottingham scumbags The Hip Priests  team up with the legendary Supersuckers . While the 'Suckers track Deceptive Expectations has a...