DEAD HOOKERS-
'The Burial/The Rebirth'

LP/CD

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The DEAD HOOKERS outta Wausau, WI have been festering in the sticks of Marathon County eagerly waiting to unleash the beast. Well, here it is, their debut LP/CD...‘The Burial/The Rebirth’. This brazen 5 piece can loosely be classified as a garage band. Their songs are centered around traditional 60’s garage riffs. But instead of restructuring and rehashing the same ‘ol Back From The Grave tunes, the DEAD HOOKERS bring something completely refreshing to the table. They adjoin their fuzzy, decayed Nuggets-like tunes with trippy, blissful Gris Gris-ey psychadelic interludes. So each song has more of a path, than just the same ‘ol verse/chorus/verse structure. And the result is something very uniquely their own. Much like bands like the Catholic Boys, Black Lips and the Functional Blackouts; the DEAD HOOKERS possess a sense of “sound”. Meaning when you hear one of their songs, you know right away that it’s a DEAD HOOKERS tune. It’s a sound that’s kind of hard to categorize because you can’t really pigeonhole true art. Well after listening to each composition on ‘The Burial/The Rebirth’ you’ll be left with an understanding of their catchy, tweater gnashing, dimentia.

From the title alone, you can tell that the DEAD HOOKERS put alot of time into the conceptualization of ‘The Burial/The Rebirth’. As you may or may not have noted, the album title is comprised of the FIRST and LAST songs on the record. Each song tells a tale, and the album cover perfectly sets the mood for this infectous, meandering masterpiece. ‘The Burial’ begins fast and hard! Sounds like a tweaked, heavy Lyres tune that advertantly drifts into phase two. In this part of the song, all the other instruments drop out to the quiet somber tones of an electric guitar pluckin, what sounds like, the background music for a peaceful, mournful, funeral procession. Gradually the drums creep back up to the level of the serene git strummin’ before the rest of the band crashes back in to complete the fuzzed out, fucked up riff begun in phase one! Ummm, alot happening in 3:27! If you’re thinkin...huh?? Well, I completely understand! That’s the first song on ‘The Burial/The Rebirth’ and each song on the album has odd little nuances like this essentially making descriptions more confusing, than informative. So if you like any of the other ‘fringe’ Dead Beat artists like the DC Snipers, AluminumKnotEye or the Feelers, I’d strongly reccomend checkin’ this one out. It’s far from a standard garage punk record and pretty impressive for how far they stretch the rigidly defined garage rock parameters. Oh, and they really utilize their 2nd guitar player well. In certain songs, that 2nd guitar literally pops of nowhere and adds these really catchy, eclectic licks that give those particular tracks even more depth and dynamic. Vinyl lovers, the LP gets ya an unreleased exclusive bonus track called ‘I Gotta Fever’. Great tune.

Cover art hand drawn by Mike Sniper . Mike went from the bands idea to have the “front cover” span the front AND back side of the LP/CD. So conceptually, there wouldn’t be a “back cover”. The idea was to have the front of the record be “The Burial” side and the back be “The Rebirth” side. So they’d come together to create ‘The Burial/The Rebirth’. Both images were concieved by the band and drawn according to Mike Sniper’s vision of their concept. Nice job Sniper. Looks awesome!!

For Fans of: the Hunches, Pink Reason, Black Lips, DC Snipers, Catholic Boys, Functional Blackouts, Hibachi Stranglers, Feelers, Electric Bunnies, Gris Gris, AluminumKnotEye, Time New Viking, Homostupids, Thomas Function, Night Terrors, Piranhas, Terrible Twos, Human Eye etc.

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