{"id":2197,"date":"2015-06-05T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2011-06-10T17:43:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T17:43:33","slug":"fuzztones-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98preaching-to-the-perverted%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/fuzztones-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98preaching-to-the-perverted%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuzztones \u2013 \u2018Preaching To The Perverted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

(album, Stag O Lee)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Garage legends the Fuzztones\u2019 first studio set since 2008\u2019s parpin\u2019 Horny As Hell<\/em>, oozes from the speakers with malign intent, dropping globs of goo goo muck on the carpet and cutting up the rug.<\/p>\n

A dark swirling vortex of sound in twelve chapters, Preaching To The Perverted <\/em>comes wrapped in a cover reminiscent of comic book heavyweight Sal Buscema\u2019s finest 1970s work, and once in motion, the disc sets out on just the kind of trip that all fans of this great band would have hoped for. The barely restrained mad-scientist garage of \u2018My Black Cloud\u2019 sets banks of keyboard vapour rolling in across the Styx, only to be torn asunder by Lenny Silver\u2019s jagged fuzz squalls and troubled by mainman Rudi Protrudi\u2019s ghosts-in-the-cheese vocal. \u2018Between The Lines\u2019 coils itself around a serpentine Doors-style grove that comes to us by way of the Pigeon Toed Orange Peel, while \u2018Flirt, Hurt and Desert\u2019 furthers the Varanoid theme by whirlpooling around its own axis like a self-devouring snake.<\/p>\n

The \u2018tones present their already well established authentic garage credentials with \u2018Launching Sanity\u2019s Dice\u2019 (geddit?) and garnish them with Lana Loveland\u2019s lush Vox and a superb, brief instrumental freakout. Preaching To The Perverted<\/em>\u2019s standout track is the episodic \u2018Invisible\u2019, a Technicolor brownout that combines an evocative reverb-laden lead with keyboards that intermittently sound like a vintage modem attempting to connect with the afterlife. Such esotery is quickly burned off as the group lay it on the line for \u2018Set Me Straight\u2019 \u2013 an immediate and direct hunka Sixties-style badlove punk adorned by an enticing vocal, transcendent chorus and strafing lead solo.<\/p>\n

An uneasy quietude is restored by the pre-dawn, bass-driven echoplex miasma of \u2018Dont Speak Ill of the Dead\u2019, wherein diaphanous wisps of guitar and a haunting keyboard motif gently orbit within their own dimensions. However, such Sputniked ambience is not to last as we are returned to the catacombs by the heavy elemental resurrection shuffle of \u2018Old\u2019 \u2013 which pounds its way toward a nefarious peak, aided by a harp break from Hades.<\/p>\n

\u2018This Game Called Girl\u2019 ushers in the disc\u2019s sexy segment with a priapic up-tempo groove that evokes images of naked bodies writhing beneath \u00bd watt fluorescent blacklights as valves flicker and hum. Further woo is pitched by \u2018Lust Pavilion\u2019, a transgressive timecheck from 69-o-clock, where sultry instrumentation causes zips defending layers of PVC and suede to open of their own accord and wraps up with a truly post-coital coda. \u2018Bound To Please\u2019 is similarly horny, juxtaposing sweet chorus-infused guitar and soft vocal enticements against BDSM bordello lyrics before expanding into a funky, fuzzy, fuckfest.<\/p>\n

By now stained with traces of most of the body\u2019s grab bag of fluids, Preaching To The Perverted<\/em> gets ready for repose by concluding with a subtle, piano and vocal invitation to lay with the damned. Who could resist? Not me.<\/p>\n

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