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Influences
THINGS SAID ABOUT POWERSOLO (US press)
“Massive and mobile, revved-up and smirking wired manic relentlessness with polished
precision musicianship and plenty of gratuitous sonic elegance and refinement within their
genre-shifting role playing. But no matter what they try these guys can really make it come to
life (..) So good it’s ridiculous!”
Dream Magazine
“PowerSolo's opening set showed why Spencer would seek them out for support. Both its
R&B/soul-punk and its two guitars and drums lineup are a nod to Spencer's Blues Explosion
and their shared affection for hill-country blues. But frontman Kim 'Kix' Jeppesen has a much
goofier stage presence than Spencer, opting for the facial tics, clucks and barks of a trailer
trash psychobilly rather than the cool, swagger of Sun Records stars. Jeppesen engaged the
crowd, often bringing his goofiness down from the stage.“
NBC4.com
“People were just losing their shit all around me, it was infectious. The charismatic frontman
(Kim Kix) was totally playing to the crowd, giving a lot of shoutouts to "the ladies" and doing
mini-windmills on his guitar. (..) At any rate, they are seriously talented musicians and the
crowd was really having a great time at this show.”
ThreeImaginaryGirls.com
“Powersolo mixes punk, rockabilly and psychedelia into a stew of pure fun. (..) Crank this one
up and take a road trip through the silly cities of your imagination.”
Blog Critics Magazine
“Tunes about truckin,’ fuckin’, and NASCAR, mopey C&W, amphetamine-laced rockabilly, and
a jewel-case picture of the band hanging off a tractor in the middle of a farm field. Where else
could Powersolo call home than Aarhus, Denmark?”
Illinois Entertainer, September 2007
“To dismiss PowerSolo as pure goof rock is tempting. But it's impossible not to see something
more in the band -- the group is the aural equivalent of that friend whose sense of humor is
sometimes supremely embarrassing, but who's worth sticking with nonetheless. (..) there's
something to this band that goes beyond the shtick and will likely gain a good bit of attention,
with or without the goof factor.”
Pittsburgh City Paper
“PowerSolo is Heavy Trash's out-of-control little brother, a trio that created their own genre of
music called Donkey Punk; a combo of rockabilly, country, blues, and surf mixed with punk
rock. And if this sound doesn't allow you to loosen up and deal with all the baloney in the
world, have someone check you for a pulse.”
Local vertical blog
“Then they took the stage. Wow did they have energy. The music was rock/rockabilly/psych
everything. Kim, the lead singer and a guitarist was amazing with his facial expressions and
range of vocals. He would do this singing that almost sounded guttural, but was perfect for the
song. He also loved to dance around the stage. The descriptions on the internets stating they
are a great performance did not lie. My cheeks were hurting after awhile from smiling and
laughing and just having fun.”
Metroblogging Portland
About POWERSOLO -THE SKINNIEST LIVE BAND IN THE UNIVERS
PowerSolo return with an album that cuts to the bone. 12 songs in 30 minutes just like the good old days. BLOODSKINBONES. Blood, skin and bones. Tendons, nerves, muscles and not so much as a gram of excess fat on a skeleton that can be seen and felt. Very much in tune with the Jeppesen brothers bodies, which grace the cover. The railthin brothers, Kim Kix and Atomic Child, are once again a duo after the groups drummer of five years, JC Benz, pulled the plug to focus on his sound studio and family. Benz has however still been on drum duty on BLOODSKINBONES, which was also recorded in his studio. Three men in one room. Drums and two guitars and then a dozen songs that want you no good and go straight for the throat. This is PowerSolo in their natural habitat - just like they are live, where they have earned an incomparable reputation for being a full- on, intense and always entertaining band.
ALLSCANDINAVIAN.COM
Album review. Feb 23, 2009
PowerSolo: BLOODSKINBONES
Words: Peter Krogholm
I first saw PowerSolo in the very beginning of this millennium at a rockabilly event in Denmark’s second city Aarhus. Back then it was just the Railthin Brothers aka Kim “Kix” and Bo “Atomic Child” Jeppesen on guitar and drums respectively, Bo hurting the drums with biggest sticks I think I’ve ever seen, Kim taking the now-trademark redneck attitude to the max, and it was… Well, more entertaining than good to be honest.
The reception of their 2001 debut ‘Lemon Half Moon’ also reflected this, so I must admit - with the show in mind - that I was a little surprised when a couple of years later news broke that label Crunchy Frog had signed the duo. A surprise turning into sense when they released ‘IT’S RACEDAY… and your pussy is GUT!!!’ in 2004, not least because JC Benz aka Jens Søndergaard took over on drums, providing stability in the musical anarchy, but also because they had better songs and a sense of direction.
Well, “direction” in lack of better terms, because it really was all over the place stylistically, the only common traits being their own genre description “donkey-punk” and said anarchy which has been the engaging core of PowerSolo since then, even on their mainstream flirt third album ‘Egg’ from 2006 (“mainstream” being used with caution here - it was as mainstream as can reasonably be expected of these Danes).
Perhaps ‘Egg’ didn’t work out as hoped sales-wise, perhaps they just got bored with being nice(r), but fact is that ‘BLOODSKINBONES’ marks a return to the rockabilly ‘n punk roots from ‘It’s Raceday…’, with the Railthin Brothers and JC Benz (although officially out of the band still behind the drums) heavy petting the lowest denominator with daffy humor on 12 tracks clocking in at just 29 minutes and the insanely catchy hate trip on public transportation, ‘Busses’, a towering highlight on a really entertaining - and good - rock album.
Others count sea shanty ‘Pirates Of The Oblivion’ sporting a “Hu-Ah!” psych-polka chorus, the very 1960s rock ‘Coco’ and ‘Elvin D Jerk (Part 2)’, the latter telling the tale of drunkard Elvin stumbling on a curb and breaking his neck and both reminding a little of what Arctic Monkeys do. Opening instrumental ‘Murder In SFAX’ is evil, ‘Psych Demons’ pop and ‘Gimme The Drugz’ a psychedelic quest for drugs in all shapes or forms, while very short, very PowerSolo’esque album closer, ‘Nineteen Ninety-six’, tell the story of PowerSolo from when it all began in Kim Kix’s bedroom as a one man act (hence “Solo”) with “eight hundred songs about girls and my dick”.
Says it all, really!
YOU CAN BUY DOWNLOADS OF ALL THE POWERSOLO RECORDS AND THE HIMMERLAND SOUNDTRACK HERE:
First single of PowerSolo's forthcoming killer album BLOODSKINBONES out February 23rd on KLICKTRACK. Don't you just hate public transportation too!?! Kim Kix and the Atomic Child certainly do.
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Thanx for your show at the WhiteTrash! Was great! Hope to see you again!!! Was on the guestlist,but bought 3 records,so i don..t feel to say "SORRY!"..... Gruce der crusher
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