SPECIMENS, THE: The Quick and the Deaf: CD

Mar 27, 2008

In the tradition of fellow Australian bands like Rose Tattoo, AC/DC, The Saints, and Radio Birdman, these guys take the Detroit’s bluesy, punked-up rock’n’roll template and just go to town with it, infusing it with enough swagger to blow the balls off a charging rhino at sixty paces. Collected here are two full-lengths and an EP, all of which are definitely above average for this particular pigeonhole, plus an interview with the band from an Australian radio show. Impressive stuff here, fo’ sho’.

 –jimmy (Zodiac Killer)

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