Three Dimensional Tanx are revolting!
Lancaster’s very own garage-punks of psych appear to be kicking against the pricks. With so much smooth BJM influenced psych around at the moment, these lads are making their songs shorter and dissonant. Instead of the 8 minute jams preferred by their contemporaries, they’re moving towards sub 2 minute splurts of guttural energy. Hell, the fact that their second album is simply titled Attack! does offer something of a clue…
Even the aggravatingly cheap and nasty album art reinforces this move towards the artificial and the fractured. The Technicolor sci-fi of debut album Three Dimensional Tanx is gone, long gone.
But with spliced anarchy we also see increased humour. Half Man Half Biscuit would be proud of a song titled ‘Astral Plane Flight Attendant’. So even when Spacey and the boys are putting their bovver boots on, they still have the same impish smile. And a drummer who usually can’t keep his pants on.
The chaos starts with the amphetamine rush of ‘Motorbootin’, an earache inducing bashing of drums that gives way to Spacey at full pitch, spinning words a mile a minute, shooting straight on while the music roars behind him. He sings of dirty floors while his band writhe on one.
‘Scene Not Herd’ chugs on a sleeze-ball riff. Spacey’s oily croon. Icksville.
‘Spacey’s Cure’; heavy on the keys and swirling in the grand old 3D tanx style.
‘Breathe Brother Breathe’ is pure punk rammalamma, sloppy backing vocals and breakneck guitar. Overshooting The Saints they splat closer to The Dead Kennedy’s.
‘Pink Spaceship’ will get ’em pogoing. Careering like Wacky Races in Death Valley; breakneck, thrilling and daft.
The aforementioned ‘Astral Plane Flight Attendant’ closes the album off with their specialist style of lava lamp dance, suggestive of a world where Hawkwind presented Rainbow.
In conclusion, The Stooges for the real ale age have smashed it up.
http://threedimensionaltanx.bandcamp.com/album/attack-new-studio-album-pre-order
Don’t forget the read the review of the first album and an interview with the band!
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