Pussy Galore – Performance: One Lump or Two [Sugarshit Sharp Review] (PRESS, UK)

The Michael Lavine band photo was also used on the Penetration In The Centerfold 7″ sleeve released in Japan.

Performance

One Lump or Two?

Pussy Galore ‘Sugarshit Sharp’
(Product Inc MPROD 15LP) ****

THIS IS a 21st Century mindwarp collision. This is Pussy Galore, the American Nightmare, re-inventing thrash and spelling it trash. ‘Sugarshit Sharp’ is a frenzied cyclone of snatched sounds and influences which makes for an experiment without a conclusion or a need for one. If rock music really has nowhere else to go, the Pussy Galore are dragging it back to the rat-invested sewers, where it rightly belongs.

First they butcher Einsturzende Neubauten’s ‘Yu-Gung’, if that’s possible, mixing in samples of Public Enemy’s ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’. One long, over-stated mindscrew of guitars, drums and vocals, ‘Yu-Gung’ is Pussy Galore putting rock through a blender of razor blades and watching their baby go red. It’s one long blood-curdling scream.

Side two contains five new songs and reveals the band’s delightful ability to make the most miss-timed, ugliest noise around.

Drums stampede in all directions; guitars fuzz Cramps-style and are castrated mercilessly and the vocals sound like they’ve been dragged backwards through a loudhailer.

And yet, Pussy Galore are steeped in rock ‘n’ roll tradition; they have just chosen to disfigure their heritage.

‘Sugarshit Sharp’ verges on the absurd – a place where Pussy Galore obviously like to hang out.

The noise has been stitched together by sonic surgeons with a masochistic glee in their eyes and machetes as needles.

Pussy Galore’s art is their ability to make their worst sound better than anything else around.

Ron Rom.”