There’s always so much serious shit going on in the world around me that I often feel overwhelmed. Then I find myself listening to depressing ass music on Spotify during my train ride home in a car that reeks of stale farts and bum piss.
Then I hear a band like the Portland five-piece rock outfit Haunted Spurs and I feel like everything is right with the world again, suddenly everything doesn’t seem so drastically putrefied. It reminds me that rock and roll has the power to cure all ills, and from the very beginning of their four song EP Manhattan, Haunted Spurs keep the rock turned up to outrageously loud and ear-catching volumes. Take the opening track, “Manhattan,” with its high energy raucous guitar sound that reminded me of the then and now mixture of bands like The Ramones blended with the earlier career fuzz rock output of the Kevin Barnes led collective of Montreal. The song at once takes you in its grasp and shakes you, makes you feel it, hear it, and want more of it. This same feeling continues on the equally scuzzy rock of “Midnight Blur” a buzzing infestation of fuzzy guitars and wild vocals that sound a bit like Tarzan crying out from the trees in those old films. Then a song like the two-plus minute onslaught of fuzzy pop rock “Tyrannosaurus Rx” (worth it for the title alone) keeps you nailed to the wall with its high energy. Manhattan closes just as raucously as it begins, with the high energy, balls to the wall mixture of garage rock and new wave melodies of “Holy Oleander.” I haven’t had an EP whet my appetite for a proper full length in a long time. But Manhattan sure has me hungering for more of this infectious and fun rock. I hope it comes soon because I am seriously starving for more.
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