Pink Sexies
Pink Sexies
Wrecked ‘Em Wreckords
It’s been a good week. Not only did a re-issue of Wrecked ‘Em Wreckords eponymous Pink Sexies EP show up in my my mailbox, the eight song epic by my favorite Knoxville punks has been pressed onto sexy pink vinyl. Oh yeah. It made me want to leave the office immediately and buy a gallon of PGA and some strawberry Kool-Aid on the way home.
This is straight up blotto music: smart primitive noise like The Pagans and Pere Ubu used to make. But it’s sweatier with plenty of double-feature horrorshow imagery. Like Frankenhookers. Seriously. And when Sexies frontman Hamo Banham lets out a snotty, “Bye-bye zombie baby, bye-bye” it’s not hard to imagine Johnny Thunders ooching around in his grave a little.
“Tease Kiss,” is a grimy wannabe punk standard with David Johansen’s lipstick smeared all over it. It’s a post-rockabilly strutter about girls (I guess, could be wrong) with dirty minds who can kill you with a little sweet kiss. Gospel, rockabilly and pop art converge in a sticky lo-fi muddle as the Sexies invite us to step back in time to “Do the Dance.” And so it goes.
This was one of my favorite CDs of 2001. It looks a whole lot prettier in pink.
