Remember Kitty & The Rooster? If you’ve seen or heard the human-like animals before, you won’t have forgotten them. On their third album, Get The Clap, Jodie Ponto (cocktail drums, vocals) and Noah Walker (guitar, vocals) go all the way to confirm what makes them such a blast: blown-out rockabilly riffs—they probably call it cockabilly themselves?—and storytelling ripped from the van after a long, underpaid gig.
The Vancouver duo keep things loose but sharp, turning everyday musician struggles into explicit (or ambiguous) punchlines that undoubtedly will guarantee a good laugh during live shows, sometimes with a poignant undertone and often with pop culture references (or in combination: “Fred Durst did all for the nookie // Bryan Adams did it all for love // I did it all, did it all, did it all for a hundred bucks”).
The ten original songs are rough, funny, and weirdly heartfelt, and I actually like them more than I should, but that odd mix of skills and wit lands exactly right. There’s a warm, even intimate charm in this infectious cocktail of 60s surf worship, hip-shaking garage rock, enchanting doo-wop, and seasoned DIY grind (so yeah, I sing along loudly to the final track: “Encore, encore, give me more, give me more!”).
Get The Clap, recorded and mixed by Corwin Fox(!), is out digitally (self-released).
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