"22" EP 2008 - featuring the hits: Pills, Alcohol, Ghost, 2 Black Eyes, Robot Receptors, Kill Me 10 Times, and Tonight. $5 contact us on here!
"Suzy Wong And The Honkeys – 22
Let me start by saying that I think this thing is called 22. This is just an educated guess. The cover is a black and white cover with the band name scrawled on top and an odd painting/drawing/photo of a person who has their neck split and the blood is forming the number “22”. Not sure what the number means or anything, but what the heck, there was no press material in the envelope so it gets to be named “22”.
When the CD started to play my initial thought was “whoa…does this suck”. Seriously, the tune (“Pills”) is a noisy creature with a 1980’s 4-track tape sounding production with a female voice that jumps from screaming to a whiny type of voice. It reminded me of those terrible Punk bands from the 80’s that seriously did suck and purposely created the noise to hide their lack of talent. You know the bands, they were usually your best friends in high school and forced you to listen to them and make you lie to them about liking their tunes.
But before the first song was even done I was starting to change my mind. First thing that started that change was the realization that the drumming was actually pretty friggin’ tight. That type of thing never happened in those old bands. So I started the CD over and paid closer attention. This time I caught on to it that any noise and oddness going on was 100% deliberate. These folks were not half assed musicians, but instead they are people who actually know their instruments. Or so it seems. Could this be a band actually trying to recapture that whole 80’s vibe thing, yet doing it right? The extreme DYI of the disc would lead one to believe so, including the lack of the press materials. Plus remember the 4-Track recording? Well, the music even has drop-outs on it like the old tapes always had.
Musically make no mistake about it, this is acquired taste territory. It’s noisy, sloppy, and completely insane sounding. But that isn’t to say there are not redeeming qualities (though to some the “noisy, sloppy and completely insane sounding” is all the redemption needed). In fact there are breaks in the songs “Alcohol” and “Robot” that are such brilliant riffs and hooks that I wish they had created an entire song using that riff.
So be forewarned, this is crazy stuff indeed, but to folks with certain tastes, this is a fun band with some crazy stuff going on."- Sonic Ruin Reviews We'll Cum to the Cunt Tree" EP 2006 - featuring the hits: Lynzee, Bloody and Fucked, Hole to China, Lori's Baby, Astrologicality, and Friends. $4 contact us on here!
“Mohawk’ed punks might not call them punk, but I would,” quoth a local fan. Wherever their music falls in the old-school-versus-new-school punk rock rating game, we like it. It’s snarling and saucy, with tons of energy and scream-o female vocals in the vein of Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex."- Metroland
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