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"Not only does this sound inspired, tight, true to thespirit of the
forebearers they touch upon – it sounds fucking MASSIVE.
It is not some tin shed treble fest…it is a ball kicking rock and roll
rollercoaster ride (sans breaks) that rips you in and out of your
mind like a double shot of rock and roll moonshine!" - Skinny Magazine
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"Ease-Up On The Break-Downs" LP + CD (Neptoon Records)
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They exhume the corpse of 60's Pacific North-West Garage Rock/R&B yet sew in pieces of pop-punk heart & trash rock'n'roll liver into this Frankenstein, Thee Manipulators have debut one stompin', slurrin' & swaggerin' slab o' wax!
Lead-growler Mike Roche belts out cerebral-diarrhea ditties about juke-joints & cannibals, whilst shoving the listener's head into a toilet bowl of reverb & tremelo geetar. Alex Angel stumbles into this filthy baño of bombardment & drops a faulty curling-iron of shock-fuzz lixx into the mixx. The body then starts involuntarily convulsing as Mike Park's R&B bass stylings take over, backed by the primal pounding of Ben Frith's skin-bashing. Finally, add in Henry "Dr. Hankenstein" Beckwith's intoxicating ivory-ticklin' ... & you have the Celtic-Frosting on the cake!
Kickin' off the beast with the contagious crescendo of "Minor League Fame" right through to the wrenching redemption gospel of "Crucifixated", the aural adventure along will keep your rhythm pulsin' & your loins convulsin'!
This unkempt krew of cuckoos have shared the booze-soaked stage with such name-droppables as King Khan & The Shrines, Pierced Arrows, Mr. Quintron
& Monotonix. Giggin' regularly all around the NW USA, they'll soon be hittin' the pavement & visitin' your village soon ... lock up your chinchillas!
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