THE BRAZEN HUSSIES -- 'BRAZEN HUSSIES II'

Released in 2001
Peoplesound.com
ART5918-CD02
Dave Queen -- guitar/vox
Lunch -- bass guitar
Russell Curtis -- drums

Thoughts

The third Brazen Hussies EP -- despite the name -- begins with a simultaneously cheery and desperate number in "Super Isolate," which plays around with sci-fi/glam-via-Bowie imagery in the lyrics, nervously winning singing and a will to power in the arrangement. The amount of scrabbling noise kicked up during most of the song, while not simply blur and chaos, infects the core riff with a whole mess of chaos, something the string synth freakout at the end just adds to. "Forgot More Than I Ever Knew" is a typically short and...well, not necessarily sweet, but pointed song under two minutes, mostly being Dave and his guitar and overdubbed (?) vocals, a kind of mournful ballad that thanks to the solo aims for something more than mopery, if indeed it was ever aimed at that. The instrumental "Shit My Pants," in contrast, is the longest thing that the band ever did at over eight minutes, armed with a Sabbath-via-grunge riff that seems fifteen years out of place but perhaps is all the better for it. Dave mostly solos all over the place after a certain point while the rhythm section continues on, occasional drum fills aside. At some points the band breaks into full-on boogie rock jams and pretty well at that, but otherwise it's a nice slow march to the grave.
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