Mere mention of Dinosaur Jr as a reference marker in press releases is guaranteed to have us sitting up paying immediate attention. Alas it’s usually met with disappointment when said so described platter rears up clueless and sounding like some ill-thought third league vaguely grunge grasped affair possessed of little talent and bereft of anything approaching a redeeming quality.
So caution was the watch word when PR emails heralding imminent release activity from Forest UK where wedged through our email letterbox, ’Stunning lo-fi slacker indie for lovers of Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine, Sebadoh, Ride and Splashh…’ came the cry to which by way of some involuntary action our eyebrows arranged themselves in a cynical pose. Out via indielabel and pressed up on 10 inch prime cuts of wax coloured to boot and available to die for mid October time is the ’Caramel Arms’ EP from which tripped out as a herald comes ’Coaster’ – in short a sub 4 minute fuzz trimmed scuzzed up rapid fired slab of blister kissed bubble grooved bliss replete with strum strutted riffola ablaze with the kind of coming apart at the seams cracked euphoria as bedeviled the kind of stuff shuffling out of the wilde club imprint in the early 90’s though here curdled with the flavouring of Moose’s debuting platter and trace elements of a pre ’Wake Up’ era Boo Radleys, kinda cute don’t you think……
