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Genre:
Rock
Release Date: 09/26/2006
The Radio Knives are a bunch of frantic noisemakers from Boston who used to be called
TV Eye, and while you don't for a second doubt that these guys love
the Stooges (as the old name would suggest), they tend to sound more like other bands who love
the Stooges -- most notably
Radio Birdman or
the Dictators, only with less
hard rock and more
garage-
punk folded into the mixture. But they do share
the Stooges' innate understanding of what makes for good
rock & roll -- lots of raunchy guitar, big drums, a vocalist with plenty of snarl and attitude, and songs that get to the point and hit it hard.
Cursed, the debut album from
the Radio Knives, has all these attributes in plentiful supply, and guitarist/singer
Stephen Fay, bassist/singer
Alan A. Levesque, and exiled drummer
Daniel J. McCarthy don't let the energy flag for a moment during the disc's 37-minute duration. While these guys don't exactly reinvent the wheel (you've got a lot of tunes about bad girls, bad attitude, and partying in the hearty manner), the songs strut the traditional stuff with high style and plenty of sweat, and
"Son of a Gun" is a pleasant surprise, sort of a moody
rock variation on
Steve Earle's
"The Devil's Right Hand." If you're one of those people who thinks
rock is dead,
the Radio Knives will reveal the body still has plenty of life left in it with a few spins of
Cursed.
~Mark Deming, All Music Guide
;)
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