Originally written by Fiona Fletcher · 3 March 2003
The Rocks
Everybody In The Place
Label: Scratchy Records Release Date: 03/03/2003
Well, Sonic Mook certainly have their thing. If scratchy garage guitars, stop-start post-punk drums with lots of hi-hat and drunken yelping vocals are your sort of thing, then file this single next to your Richard Hell records, close your eyes, and imagine a little bit of CBGB's heaven (via Shoreditch, at least.)
If no, then you'll just think it's a shambolic mess. Me, I find it oddly charming in an "Aw, aren't they cute, little garage rock boys who can't play their instruments?" sort of way, but then again, I would. I just wish that The Liberhivestrokes would stop being fucking fashionable so I could go back to admitting I like this sort of thing in public without feeling a twinge of guilt.
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