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In Chicago, where yesterday’s bands get chewed up and spit out like fingernails, mutation is survival. It’s how Bang! Bang! has hammered away in the stretches of time that eat most bands alive (four years & counting). But rather than growing legs and walking on land, this mutation has allowed them to take a liberating plunge into new waters on their new CD, The Dirt That Makes You Drown. With two new members from the acclaimed Chicago band New Black joining the party started by Gretta Fine (vocals/bass) and Jackie Flash (vocals/guitar), Bang! Bang! has evolved not Continued...

so much into a different animal but rather a stronger one, better geared to endure a new world.

The album kicks off with “What We Need,” an incandescent maelstrom and hang-ten soul-blues spasm, where Jackie rocks like a dirtier Mick Jagger cum Richard Hell, amped up on trucker pills, big city lights and furtive desire — demanding that what we truly need is some “goddamn love.” On “She Came From Outer Space” Gretta sings about a wee girl inundated by nighttime B movies who gets tucked into bed and watches the world warp around her head like a Twilight Zone episode. Backed by a beat that sounds like a KORG hammering into funk punk service, it’s a slow, mystery-entwined throbber.

Caught in the act at Albini’s Electrical Audio Studios by Greg Norman (Pelican, Built To Spill) Bang! Bang! has come back louder in the loud parts, harder in the hard parts and softer in the gentle parts — making their latest onslaught an enrapturing warehouse of sound that aims make your aorta pound like an impending heart attack.

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