I will say it now, just so I don’t have to say it again: yes, the two members of Tiny Masters of Today are but ten and twelve years old. Wow, crikey, etc, blah. Yeah, it’s amazing – and it’s also entirely irrelevant, even if the subject matter is a vindication of childhood (“Kids didn’t start no Vietnam”). Rock‘n’roll is rock‘n’roll, no matter what the height of the figure to which the electric guitar is strapped; and this is definitely rock‘n’roll.
TMOT favour a lo-fi, gutter-punk approach; the actual notes all but buried under a wall of all-embracing distortion which just about lets the tune through. There’s also a scattershot beat; a driving, out of control momentum and more than a sufficiency of attitude; and what is more, a sense of fun. This record is two minutes and six seconds of lo-fi, high-intensity fun, with life and urgency and sloganeering and glorious edgy dumbness. It evokes images of gritty, black and white footage of all-but-riots of performances in low ceilinged clubs of dubious legality, and should be checked out by anyone and everyone with a weakness for precocious, attitudinal punk thrills.
Does Russell Simins of the blues explosion play drums on this?
Keep meaning to give them a listen, should hopefully get around to it later.
he hasn't
played on their singles but he plays with them live, and has produced their album.
This is good.
Very good in fact.
I like the artwork
with Astro Boy flipping the bird.
heh
i would buy it for astro boy alone.
Please do
Buy two!
this
is now released on Dec 18th due to the distributor cocking up.