| Review: Stinky Munchkins - Release The Lions |
| Sunday, 14 October 2007 |
 Whatever they are drinking, I'll have the same! 'Release the Lions' is an impossibly funky, infectiously melodic aural delight!
So far it's the only song by them I have heard, but I'm already addicted to
their highly original trashy and sleazy sound.
Every time you listen to it you notice more and more that you never noticed the previous time-and as someone with a short attention span, I can't get enough of bands that manage to make one song sound like a whole albums worth of material and they definitely do-it meanders all over the place like a drunken, letcherous, androgynous glam-rocker-perfect! They're like the thinking man's Scissor Sisters, and there's certainly nothing Stinky about the Stinky Munchkins. It's hard to believe that this Glasgow based, kicking, screaming, electro baby was born from days when Dino Bardot (vocals, guitar,car horn,synthesizer) and Daryll Doll (vocals, occasional moustache, percussion) would scour charity shops for awful records and challenge each other to make something listenable from Chas and Dave and Tottenham Hotspur 7"'s but I have a feeling everyone that hears them will be glad Dino and Daryl were that bored in the first place. Later, they teamed up with Matt Gallus (bass) and Charlie Hong Deen (guitar) and eventually Bix Cosmo (drums) and brought out 'Release the Lions' on 7" on the 6th of August this year, on 'Art Goes Pop' and not before time! To enhance the experience, I would recommend getting really wasted and checking out their technicolour, retina frying video on youtube-it makes them look like the glitter hurling bastard love children of Gary Numan, Soulwax (on loads of acid) and The Sweet (and a million others inbetween)-as well as sounding like it. They've rattled my cage, and I'm off to look for more because silence is just TOO silent now I have been introduced to their schizophrenic, electrifying, fricking AWESOME sound. Listen to Release The Lions Find out more About Stinky Munchkins www.myspace.com/ilovestinkymunchkins www.stinkymunchkins.com |
