THE INTERCONTINENTAL PLAYBOYS
Title: Hymns Of The Flesh
Label: I94 Bar Records (Australia)
Catalogue No: ()
Format: CD (album)
Released: August 2009
Price: $ 25.00
Break out the smoking jacket and mix an extremely dry martini: Sydney's debonair kings of suave voodoo garage rock and roll, the Intercontinental Playboys, are unveiling another ode to lust and lasciviousness.
Track Listing: (41:48 m:s)
- Sitting Pretty (You're In Control) (2:52 m:s)
- Circle Girl (2:51 m:s)
- Bad Queenie (2:46 m:s)
- It's Raining Today (2:42 m:s)
- No Answers (2:26 m:s)
- The Maestro's Shadow (3:50 m:s)
- The Department Of Love (3:24 m:s)
- Driving Sideways (2:18 m:s)
- It's All Getting Too Much (2:54 m:s)
- Exit Sign (4:05 m:s) (*live recording)
- Thirteen Women (3:42 m:s) (*live recording)
- Downright Right Now (3:13 m:s) (*live recording)
- Action Speaks Louder Than Words (2:10 m:s) (*recorded in 2004)
- Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Kill! (2:46 m:s) (*recorded in 2001)
After 10 years as unwavering, persistent constants in the airhead-sphere of Sydney, the band decided it was time for a follow-up to "Sonic Seducers" their successful debut long-player on Off the Hip. Two years of studio work later, "Hymns Of The Flesh" is here taking the organ-driven fuzz-tone finesse for which the Playboys are renowned around the world and adds a sharper pop hook dimension.
Recorded at Sydney's Tardis Studio (Johnny Casino, The Booby Traps) and mixed by Mike Burnham, the sounds that emanate will leave you, and those with whom you are intimate, breathless. Solemn? No. Flesh-centric? Yes. There will be sweat. And delightfully so.
Original Playboys Tommy, Benedict and Michelangelo have been augmented by Bobby on drums and the sound is more formidable than ever. Those impressed by their initial audacious and throbsome move to "Hammond organ as bass" will be sonically KO'd, again, by the sounds enclosed within "Hymns Of The Flesh". Newcomers? Watch Out! You will be violated, in ways unexpected, dexterous, and memorable. The Playboys sound has been likened to a lot of notable bands from garages and other dark places, but everyone has a different take on these remarkable gentlemen. What will they do for you?
WHAT THEY'VE SAID ABOUT THE INTERCONTINENTAL PLAYBOYS:
"When I listen to this band, I find the answer to a question I had never thought to ask myself before: What if the Stranglers played garage rock? ... pretty f*ckin filthy... simply outstanding."
- Mike Bennett on Fufkin.com
"This disc features one great song after another. A high energy affair, "Sonic Seducers" represents everything wild and wonderful there is about real rock and roll... Imagine The Stooges getting together with The Buzzcocks and Cheap Trick, and there you have it." - Twist & Shake April 2005
"This Sydney four-piece have around for some time with more than a dash of the Cramps in them, but that's by no means their only influence. You can throw in the Barracudas, the Stooges, the Music Machine and the Fuzztones if you like (and that's only scratching the surface)." -www.i94bar.com May 2005
"... has a sing-speak vocal yap that draws comparison to both Tom Verlaine and Hugh Cornwell channeled through Lou Reed... have created a solid album of mostly great songs that sound like everything and nothing else at the same time. Hip indeed." - Uptown May2005
"A powerhouse of neo-Tarantino cellar-sleaze-rock." - Obzine October 2000