Bass Drum of Death - GB City (Fat Possum, 2011)

Bass Drum of Death

GB City

Fat Possum

2011

Rating: 7 trash spilling raccoons out of 10

Bass Drum of Death are part of the current wave of young kids making noisy garage pop, something that has gone on for decades but really seems to have grown exponentially in the last couple of years.  And grown not just in the number of bands of this description, but their acceptance into the mainstream.  It's simple music mostly, played passionately and with reckless abandon as only kids still in or just removed from their teens seem to be able to do.

It's at this point that I try to convince you BDoD are somehoe different from the rest of the pack...but they're not really, not in any quantifiable way.  Their songs might be a little catchier, that's about it.  Despite all that, I do enjoy these guys more than most of the pack, even if I'm not sure why.  They feel like honest rock-n-rollers, not interlopers getting in on the next trend.  This is just a gut feeling though, they might be interlopin' like motherfuckers.  Regardless, I like this record.  Especially the track "Get Found", which sounds a lot like the Stooge's "Search an Destroy" in all the right ways.  It's a damn catchy song, and one I hope doesn't find them in court opposite of Iggy Pop.