Nick Curran And The LowlifesReform School Girl
Eclecto Groove Records [2010]
Fire Note Says: A new style for most equals a great change of pace for me!
Album Review:
Here is the scenario: You have some friends coming over, you have your best highball glasses out on the bar, you have your finest liquor ready to pour and you have your sweet rocking stereo ready to roll. The only thing left is putting on the perfect record to complement the moment. Nick Curran And The Lowlifes have supplied you that record. Reform School Girl is a retro kicking punk, blues, and rockabilly album that will entertain you from beginning to end, as its low-fi old school approach actually strikes a very modern chord. Most of this comes from the rawness of the songs driven by the talented Texas veteran Nick Curran who gives his all on every track and pushes his vocals to the edge like a crazed distorted Little Richard. What makes Reform School Girl so strong is that it barley pauses for a breather right from the opening growl of "Um-Hum" in "Tough Love" to the title song, which is a perfect tribute to The Shangri-Las with its background vocal support right out of "The Leader Of The Pack" playbook. The big sell here with Nick Curran And The Lowlifes is that they successfully take a very 60's sound and time warp it to where it is cool in 2010. Trust me - put this on at your party and everyone is going to ask the hipster party thrower - who is that? That's when you know you got it right!
Key Tracks: "Reel Rock Party", "Kill My Baby", "Ain't No Good"
Bands With Similar Fire:
The Stray Cats
The Shangri-Las
T-Bone Walker
Nick Curran MySpace
Eclecto Groove Records
-Reviewed by Aidan Rox
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