There are two distinct parts to Amphetamine Ballads, the four-piece band’s debut album for indie behemoths Domino. The whiff of pomade may be palpable, but so is the air of commitment. It wouldn’t work without the robust commitment of singer Dale Barclay, who’s spitting and cursing one minute (“I’m a Vampire”) then lost at the end of his tether over a woman the next (“Heading for Heartbreak”). ![]() It’s unashamedly backwards-looking, caught somewhere between the precipice gazing of Nick Cave in his Birthday Party days and the plastic Elvis front Jon Spencer took in the Blues Explosion. ![]() This is the punk that takes Jerry Lee Lewis as its starting point instead of, say, the Stooges or Suicide. ![]() If punk represented a new year zero for rock to some, for others it carried all the hallmarks of a past worth digging up and fusing with its abrasive form. Short bursts of anger snap into place in the dimly lit songs of the Amazing Snakeheads, a Glasgow band enamored with the well-worn fusion of punk and classic rock'n'roll.
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