Posted by AKOUSTIK ANARKHY on 3/20/2007, 1:53 pm http://www.soundsxp.com/3841.shtml You won’t find this hirsute Merseyside band’s name in your dictionary and their musical outlook is refreshingly not by the book too. This, The Loungs Losing Today Single review, March 07 http://www.losingtoday.com/tales.php?id=139 The Loungs ‘Armageddon Outta here’ (Akoustik Anarkhy). Second release from St Helens based six piece the Loungs following last years highly acclaimed and deservedly well received debut ‘I’m gonna take your girl’. With a full length (‘We are the Champs’) in the can and slated for record store action in May, ‘Armageddon outta here’ serves as a neat reminder (as though you needed one) and taster for what’s to come. ‘Armageddon outta here’ (great title eh - think about it) is an immediately infectious dusting of summer fried hand clapping jingle jangle riff happy brass laden power pop that takes its cue from Van Morison’s ‘Bright side of the road’ and sounds for all the world like a rather frisky Housemartins spaced out of spiked smarties Possessing a whistle and hummable factor to the power ten, once inside your head this deliriously ‘well #### you then’ portion of tongue in cheek perkiness will claim squatters rights and boogie on hard - removal by cranial keyhole surgery might be required. Flip over for the quite frankly warped and wonderful ‘Cats’. A 2 minutes and 12 second frantic and fried candy coated psychedelic cosmic opera of sorts or perhaps rather more a studio fisticuffs with amps and pedals drawn between Magoo, the Beatnik Filmstars, Sparks, Vivian Stanshall and Cud - still makes for a wonky rollercoaster ride whichever way you paint it. A must have thing.
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The Loungs Sounds XP Single review, March 07
their second single offers on one side the catchy as herpes romp of /Armageddon Outta Here/, all jangle pop guitars and chirpily parped horns but just as you think you have them labelled as Housemartins wannabes they slip in the bonkers psychedelic squawl of b-side Cats. Both tracks clock in shy of two and a half minutes too leaving plenty of time for a whiskers wax should the weirdie beardie Loungs ever wish to face the world with a freshly buffed up gleaming chin.
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