Review - Pearly Gatecrashers “Popsuey”
album on Concubine thru Shock
Apparently big in Japan due to local indifference (thx
DM),
Sydney-based Pearly
Gatecrashers’ latest album “Popsuey”
is on Concubine through Shock here at
home. For those of you in the don’t-know, Pearly
Gatecrashers is now a recording-only project for Tim
Butt and Lenore Betteridge
who between 1990-93 played host to a number of guitarists, bassists and
drummers until junior’s arrival made them concentrate on making their music at
home alone-ish.
And this is so different to anything I’ve
heard! These guys seem to know their market (the cover-art is very Nippo-western) but insert the occasional western influence
like Violent
Femmes, Beach
Boys, Blondie/Deborah
Harry. It wouldn’t be comfortable in a genre-specific collection yet a record
collection would be incomplete without it...It’s fun,
it’s serious, it’s aimed well with oriental movie-like sounds here & there,
and above all, it’s what Tim
& Lenore want!
To pick one or two stand-outs would be an injustice to
the others, as was the idea of turning the album off before it finished (as
most records tend to want) but to not have or not air at least one of these
songs would be even more unjust. A joy to listen to!