You know what I love? Good music. You know what I love more? Good music that’s funny as hell.
The piano-drum duo of Slow Mo Erotic are a power force of win and awesome, driven by their nihilistic tongue-in-cheek critique of everyone and everything. For example the fan favorite song, Fuck All Y’all, manages to talk shit on every race and creed out there in line with that ‘I’m not racist, I hate everyone equally’ mentality– reminiscent of Voltaire’s song God Thinks.
Their debut album, The HOLLA!caust, is filled with amazing love songs– from Urge To Purge, a love/lust song of a cannibal, to the desperately abusive Be Here When I Get Back, and just plain desperate Let’s Settle For Each Other– to songs about the people we know, like Cunt, The HOLLA!caust, and surprisingly prudent Heartbroken Homophobe.
Needless to say, I love this band. But don’t just take my word for it, here are a but a few of my friends reactions:
Nathan, from the kitchen: “SLOW MO ROCKS!”
Ashleigh, from the couch: “Just make something up. You already know I think it’s awesome, I don’t know what else you want me to say.”
There’s a whole slew of songs worthy of your dolla dolla’s on this album, and if you have said dolla dolla’s I urge you to get it. The two ‘mo’s in Slow Mo Erotic need it to buy more lube.
QueerPunks.com: So the first thing I have to ask you is how do you keep in such damn fine shape? I need to take notes so I can have all the guys after me too.
This past friday I checked out a local music fest on the outskirts of L.A. where one of my friends bands were playing. Said friend told me a lot of bands would be playing, all but one other I hadn’t heard of before. You know how local shows are. Anyway, as I was getting ready to go my sister asks what I’m up to.
My cat Grenadine loves this album. Mind you, this cat is not one of those awesome rock-loving felines you occasionally come across at one of your stoner friends house. This thing is utterly insane. She’s the kind that hisses at you for being near her, will attack my other cat Indya after an hour of cuddling, and snaps her jaws on your finger if you so much as think of picking her up. But here she is, cuddled up right next to me and my laptop while I blast this album.
Alright, I’ll be honest. When I saw the name ‘Tough Tough Skin’ and actually heard the music they play I was totally thrown off. It’s not your bottle to the head oi-punk, but instead a mix of boarderline pop-punk and lo-fi garage rock. But I’ve got to say, I’m totally into this!
There are times that I’ve heard so much about a band and how great they are that I have develop a resistance to them. Not their music, but my willingness to give them a shot. And it’s not for any good reason either, I just have an apprehension that the music won’t be able to match the hype and I get put off. i did this to Wilco, I did it with AFI, and I did it to Mika Miko.
Exile In Guyville by Dave White
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