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The Legless Crabs - Always Your Boy

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Boo Hoo Hoo 01:11
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Time Theft 03:17
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Fake Weed Emergency 01:29
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Bob Star 01:38
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My Junk Room 01:50
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Mandatory Hugs 01:34
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Can I Crash At Yr Place 02:13
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Lines 01:39
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They Called His Name 03:16
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Drawers 00:38
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Little Men 02:25
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Weird Bar Trivia Power Trip 00:54
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Give It A Wiggle 01:20
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Where The Action Is 01:26
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I Am A Baby ( In My Universe) 02:50
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(I Wanna Be A) Cult Musician 02:01
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Wataburger Rocks Off 01:07
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Morphine 02:43
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Always Your Boy 01:22
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It's time for another Legless Crabs album... yet again we scrape the empty bowl that is America's underbelly. Nobody else is making music like this at the moment.


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Our Daily Bread 510: Papercuts, Crystal Eyes, YOVA, East Portal, Mercvrial…
by domv
BRIAN BORDELLO SHEA'S REVIEWS JAMBOREE


Unless otherwise stated, all release can be purchased now.

Papercuts ‘Palm Sunday’
(Labelman)


This is a rather fine jangly pop song well written with a melancholy air that should be bottled and released into atmosphere to seep into the summers day and soak and enrich the lives of we the general public; a song that captures a snapshot, a brief still of a beautiful girl, a beautiful boy, a moment in time that will forever be etched onto our hearts.

Crystal Eyes ‘Like A Movie’
(Bobo Integral Records) 22nd April 2022


There are some fine radio friendly guitar pop singles being released at the moment, and here we have another one. It reminds me of Catatonia with rather fetching breathy vocals and chiming grungy guitars and a semi ‘Be My Baby’ drum beat: a lovely ballad. So what on earth is there not to like…I will tell you… there is nothing not to like. So yes, as Simple Simon would say, “I like it”.

Otoboke Beaver ‘Pardon’
(Damnably)


If sparkling punk pop is your thing then I would advise you to check out this short blast of pure fun from the all girl Japanese band Otoboke Beaver. It rams you in the gullet with its nonsensical charms dipping your brain into an infectious mix of madness and melody goofiness, its like losing yourself in a chocolate inspired dream after overdosing on milkshake spiked with happy thoughts.

YOVA ‘Make It Better’
(Quartertone)


I like this single it has a subtle political(ness) about it and a great nagging violin sounding [I do not know if it is a violin, but it sounds like one] riff picking away, clawing out your eyes and picking worms from your unsettled mind like a big black angry crow shouting fuck you in between pecks. Yes, I’m a bit of a fan of this single and through further investigation I’m becoming a bit of a fan of Yova: who it seems has just released her debut LP, Nine Lives.

East Portal ‘Untitled #3’
(AKP Recordings)


This sounds like something from a beatnik black and white horror film from the 60s; a road movie featuring scary gipsy children who like to devour their victims' souls with egg spoons whilst offering their spittle to the charred remains of their god; a Mister Punch doll worked by top hatted old raggedy gentleman who has no teeth but a lot of self-belief in the power of coffee houses and backward performed poetry. You are not going to hear this track on Radio One. And it is all the better for that.

Evan Kertman ‘Rancho Shalom’
(Perpetual Doom) 29th April 2022

Rancho Shalom is a rather fetching album of baroque alt country; an album stuffed full with beautiful well-written songs. Songs with melodies that pull and twist your emotions and lyrics that both make you want to smile and cry. Evan Kertman is a man blessed with a honey rich voice that oozes class and emotion with a heart in the same place as Kurt Wagner, and Evan's music affects you in the same way that the mighty Lambchop does.

There is just something so beautifully laid back about this album, an album to laze about in the sun to as you drink yourself into a silent oblivion with only birds and memories for company, and this album is such great company. ‘No Good Reason’ is a rather stunning song of break up and heartache with one of my favourite lines from the album, "I left you first, but you left me better”. A quite stunningly beautifully written song amongst an album of stunningly beautifully written songs.



The Legless Crabs ‘Always Your Boy’
(Metal Postcard Records)

The legless Crabs are back with another blast of sonic rock ‘n’ roll; once again proving why they are the band to be kicking the decaying corpse of culture not just in the USA but life in general everywhere. Who couldn’t agree with the sentiment of "Fuck Your Boss" from ‘Time Theft’, and anyone who couldn’t have any love for the myth of rock ‘n’ roll, does not do cartwheels, when hearing the quite wonderful JAMC like ‘Fake Weed Emergency’ hasn’t an ounce of joy left in their once thriving rock ‘n’ roll soul.

The Legless Crabs as I have mentioned so many times are the true sound of adventure and seedy darkness in the underground, and are probably ignored by many other blogs for that reason, as attitude and a devil care telling of the truth does not settle well with the meme inspired Instagram friendly culture that is currently rotting and killing our beloved mainstream alternative scene.

The Legless Crabs are not power pop; they do not cover their music in a coating of authentic rose petals from the 60s; do not make auto tuned radio friendly pop, but listen to ‘Give It A Wiggle’ and not think it’s perfect pop, as it is short catchy and pretty perfect. And Always Your Boy is an album filled with sonic adventure, be it short blasts of pretty perfect alternative punk rock or longer tracks of scuzzed up bass experimental splendor; an album that needs to be in the record collection of anyone who remembers the true magic of Rock N Roll the emphasis being on the N Roll!

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released April 1, 2022

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