CLEVELAND ROCKS!!!: Proto-Punk and Art Rock In the Land of Drew Carey - Part VII
Tin Huey: Breakfast with the Hueys EP
To wash the taste of failure (i.e. Dead Boys) out of my mouth I'm now trying the next Tin Huey EP. Why do I keep getting the urge to listen to a band that I have no reason to think that I like? I don't know, but here goes...
Well, for starters, this is actually a single. I don't know who, but somebody lied to me. Ah well. At times this sounds as much like jazz as it does rock. And it always sounds at least somewhat goofy. I really don't know how to describe this band in an intelligent way since I know f
uck all about jazz and even less about musical composition. So, I'm sort of stuck at goofy, weird, jazzy, and occasionally even rockish. This doesn't sound nearly as random or incoherent as the debut EP, but it's certainly not particularly straightforward. But the songs do actually sound like songs this time around.
The first song, "Robert Takes The Road To Lieber Nawash" (yeah, me neither) starts off with lounge jazz and bizarre, stream-of-consciousness lyrics, until it descends into chaos with what I can only describe as game show music. Eventually it builds to a crescendo of drums, guitar, and for some reason, horns all blasting away at you as if to say, "HEY! ISN'T THIS ****ING WEIRD, YOU DUMB ****?!?!?!" Yes. Yes it is.
"Squirm You Worm" almost sounds like an actual rock song. But, with you know, jazzy bits. It's almost a straightforward rocker kinda sorta. It has a simple driving rhythm courtesy of guitar and saxophone (I think) and a vocal performance that has some sort of proto-rap quality to it at times that is actually rather entertaining. I think that I...I actually like this song. *gasp*
I don't know how much I like this single, but I definitely like it a hell of a lot better than the debut. I might actually check out their debut album at some point. Maybe.