Headcleaners's Boys Better review (8 out of 10)
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Headcleaner
Boys Better
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July 27, 1998
Everyone's favourite VU-reincarnation shagmonsters return with this slice of doped-up US apple pie (the kind that momma used to warn you about). Slightly more drone-rock and less poppy than "Last Junkie...", "Boys Better" still succeeds in erecting a huge wall of cross-atlantic noise, then flinging crashing power chords at it in waves until it implodes in an explosion of raw energy. Courtney's vocal drawls wide-eyed over the top like a surfer on amyl nitrate, and keyboard refrains shoot through the song's veins like...well...heroin is so passe, darling.
First extra track is the slow-paced laconic strum of "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" (a cover - I know not who of), with the band sounding spookily like a post-grunge slacker version of The Pogues, which is something I thought I'd never heard...folk music for folk that don't give a fuck. Somehow, it works. Next up comes "Free For All", a Ted Nugent song, sung through a Fisher Price mic by Zia, which ends up sounding like Sonic Youth at primary school. I haven't decided whether that is a compliment or not.
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