Album Review: The Total Rejection - "Off The Top Of Our Heads...And Other Forbidden Pleasures"
Signed to Raving Pop Blast recordings who were responsible for unleashing the excellent Mudd Club on the world last year, this is the fourth album by the Total Rejection but your correspondent's first encounter with them. My first impressions on hearing opener Degenerate Head Movie Turn On is that there's a definite Doors influence here with the swirling Manzarek style keyboards and spindly guitars although the vocals are more early Iggy (or maybe early '90s NYC glam-punks Motorcycle Boy) than Morrison. It's definitely an intriguing mix though and will leave you keen to investigate further. It seems that every track in here throws an extra ingredient into the mix which is always a good sign - Turn Your Head Around keeps the Iggyisms in there but adds in a dose of the Who with its tight rhythms and choppy guitar. Twitching And Jabber could easily have been done by one of the more sinister Nuggets garage bands like the Music Machine or the Chocolate Watch Ba...