Album Reviews

Yer Guises
The Allovers Yer Guises
7.0
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Saturday, May 19, 2018 - 19:45
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Thomas

Canadian trio The Allovers, made up of guitarist Matt Pahl, bassist Paul Arnusch (The Wet Secrets, Faunts, The Whitsundays) and drummer Garrett Kruger (Fire Next Time), have been around since 2011 and have only now gotten round to releasing their debut album via Ryan Young’s Anxious & Angry Records.

‘Yer Guises’ comes with a whopping fifteen songs’ worth of deliciously crunchy riffs, big hooks and the kind of crooned vocals that have gone out of style since the late 50ies. Their garage-y pop-punk sounds in combination with the crooned vocals make for a pretty original sound. A sound they work particularly well on songs like the ridiculously catchy and – weirdly enough kind of menacing - ‘When Freddy’s Back In Town’, ‘Kitty Cat Girl’ and the Ramonesque ‘Rinkydink’, a song written from the perspective of a breaking down lawnmower as a comment on the cheapening of the modern world.

If you want to get really critical, things do sound kind of same-y after a while. But that doesn’t really take away from the fact that there is plenty of fun to be had with ‘Yer Guises,’ one of the most surprising and original albums I’ve heard in quite some time.

 

Track listing:

  1. Blue Kangaroo
  2. Rinky Dink
  3. Tub Time
  4. Dog Team Cooperation
  5. When Freddy's Back in Town
  6. Hitchcock Twist
  7. Happy Pop
  8. Kitty Cat Girl
  9. Gooby
  10. Honey Gets Me Flies
  11. Get Serios
  12. Hey Joey
  13. Sugar Shed
  14. I Remember Beaver Lumber
  15. Allovers' Theme
Tom Dumarey
Tom Dumarey

Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.