You Can’t Hide From The Computers sets out their stall with the first note: raw-throated vocal yowling, scuzzy guitars and epileptic drums. What’s fascinating is that The Computers suddenly chuck in a harmonica solo in “Teenage Tourettes Camp” and throw amped-up fifties rock’n'roll all over the place.
You Can’t Hide From The Computers is seven blistering punk songs in eighteen minutes that recall how the early days of Motorhead might have sounded, had Lemmy had been sacked from The Stooges or The Monks rather than Hawkwind: scorchingly fast rock’n'roll married to treble-heavy eighties punk and hardcore. “Love The Music, Hate The Kids” blasts out with seizure-like precision and “Must Try Harder” shreds through vocals and drums as if they were bought in a pound shop.
“S.O.S.” slows everything down with a Lard-esque repeating chorus of ’save our souls’ and an oozing thud as if the CD player is gradually winding down. I wonder if anyone has ever thought of producing a wind-up CD player? The results could be hilarious.
“Please Drink Responsibly” combines slow and the fast elements with impressive results, but it’s the rampaging Dead Kennedys / fifties rock’n'roll-lite of “Hell Yeah” that captures The Computers‘ raging essence. Battered drums, pumping, stumbling bass, serrated guitars and a throat-shredding screech will see them go far, especially as they have a Hives / White Stripes visual sense that sees them permanently in uniform.
If The Computers could just find some choruses and forget the stoner rock plod of “City Ghosts” (and its too-close-to-”S.O.S.”-to-be-healthy chorus) their individual take on the genre could take them all over the world.
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