The French “dig it”

Just in, this review of “13 Songs For the Rodeo Grrls” from French zine Dig It! Thanks to Marie France and Roger the Engineer for the translation:

Here it is, a resurrection. After an initial period of activity (two or three EP’s) between 1982 and 1987, this Sydney band returned to business in 2009. What a break! The turning point came when their song “Don’t Look Down” was chosen to appear (between the Screaming Tribesmen and The Eastern Dark) on the compilation Do The Pop, who proposed two CD’s of the best Oz bands from ’76 to ’87, thus drawing the attention of young ears. So the band wake up again and finally releases a first album (13 Songs For The Rodeo Grrls) edited by I-94 Bar Records, an offshoot of the famous website of the same name. Between Stooges (guitars on the edge of a continuous nervous breakdown) and Died Pretty (voice, organ), often violent, sometimes moody, Decline Of The Reptiles also reminds his comrades in arms, Visitors, Radio Birdman, the Nikki Sudden’ Jacobites or the atypical and colorful Swedes “The Royal Beat Conspiracy”. Thundering garage anthems (“Where The Action Is”) mixed roughly with hallucinated blues (“Pashupatinath Blues”) or merciless rock’n'roll attacks (“Massive Existential Wall 1 “). Obviously there’s some, here and there, 70’s guitar solos that would make them excommunicated by the next corner at punk museum vigils, and a few (two or three) songs that are more introspective, but overall, the album burns the road, full throttle, with proud influences and know-how honed from the past thirty years. I-94-bar announces a new album for Chris “Klondike” Masuak soon. – Gildas Cosperec