Band : Fuzztones

Album Title : Horney As Hell

Label : Electrique Mud

Distributor : Alive

Release Date : 03 / 11 / 2008

Release : CD

The New York based garage band Fuzztones have been through various line ups since the early eighties and with this new album “Horny as Hell” they’ve made their latest album ever. As well as featuring some new songs, it also revisits lots of old songs and gives them a new lease of life. The opening track “Garden Of The Mind” sounds like a sixties Batman style theme tune. Rudi Protudi's vocals sound very fresh especially on songs like as “Bad News Travels Fast”. The old songs like “Cheyenne Rider” and “99th Floor” have a heavy Jimi Hendrix guitar sound. “Brand New Man” sounds more old school, more psychedelic and very dark. Most of the old songs are beautiful rearranged such as the classic “Yeah Babe”. It sounds more garage than before. And a song like “Johnson in a Headlock” gets more colour through the female backing vocals. “Highway 69” from their debut album “Lysergic Emanations” is very psychedelic and wild. It’s nice to hear this band through history with lots of reworked songs that adds a more garage and soul sound to it.

75/100

Guido Claes.