Ragged Barracudas/pushy
Split Lp
Listening to the 'Cudas sinister cave dwellers dirge 'Burning' feels like you're a few feet away from the stage they're playing on. Similarly, the slow-burning 'Tables Turn' sounds like a longhaired trio of late '70s punks from Cleveland, Ohio are rehearsing in your living room. You've never heard a wah pedal sound this threatening before. The city of Portland, Oregon should award Pushy for bringing boogie back. This is the kind of boogie that sticks to your denim flares like hot oil leaking from a '59 Panhead engine. In a realm where riff-rock has painted itself into a darkened corner of pentatonic predictability, the members of Pushy dare to swing and strut like half their musical DNA is the result from being the illegitimate sons of Billy Gibbons and Peter Green.