This
isn't a new album, but as it was sorely overlooked when it was
released and the band are about to return with their sophomore outing
and a tour then it's deserving of a revisit.
So what's
the deal?
Well The
Peckham Cowboys are pretty much the definitive bad boy band in the
classic rock and roll mould, and a bit more than that.
To be completely frank about it debauchery rarely sounded so intoxicatingly attractive to the ears.
To be completely frank about it debauchery rarely sounded so intoxicatingly attractive to the ears.
Everything
they do hangs by a thread, or their studio recordings would lead you
to believe this.
You could
imagine that wherever they go that there's a trail of wreckage left
in their wake.
Broken
dreams, broken hearts and broken bottles is currency in their world.
When you
tick off a list of the bands who wear their rock and roll outlaw
status on their sleeves for the world to see it's actually difficult to fit
this band in with them.
The
unintentional remit seems to be to take the template that they
hammered out and use it as a launching pad to anarchic oblivion.
For some
it may be a little too much, a little too dangerous.
If you
want to get on board with them then there's no pretense that
everything is going to be all right.
Flog it
is an acid drenched, vodka shot to the eyeball at 3am.
It's a shotgun butt
to the head and a mind fuck of a trip through the fevered dreams of
Hunter S Thompson, but only if Hunter was a black seventy year old
blues man from Mississippi who had a sixteen year old girlfriend and
a hard on for punk rock and burning shit down to the ground.
So yeah,
pretty much the dogs bollocks really.
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