Think Retro, think Fuzzy, think Retro-Fuzzy, that ladies and gentlemen is a pretty good description of the sublime Exploding Head, a kind of temporary between other stuff band comprising of members of Electramone and Orange Beauties. On this six track, twenty minute offering they produce a pretty good impression of a mid sixties power pop band with a Sonic Youth style coating of fuzziness dripping from all areas of the production.
Track one is ‘Portable AM’, and gets your mind set admirably for the tone of the EP. Mild distortion, swirling guitars, weird lyrics and weirder delivery, all wrapped up in some pretty strong song writing. Track two is the cute named ‘Horsey’ which reminds me of how the ‘Foo Fighters’ would sound if they were an unknown band without the whole Nirvana thing hanging over them. Next is ‘From the Back of Your Home’ which is so sixties pop it hurts, that and the vocal pattern reminds me of "My Sherona".
'Sugar Coated' uses the old voice through a guitar amp trick (at least that’s what it sounds like), ‘Knight’ is the most experimental track on display, and boasts some very strong production. Rounding of this little beauty is ‘Bone Crush’ which starts with some classical music, before falling back into the welcome arms of fuzzy guitars.
The EP is full of little tricks in terms of production, none of them brand new, but all of them cool as hell and executed to perfection. Exploding Head are so much better than a side project band have any right to be, this is a really interesting EP, with 6 excellent little pop songs. If you like good songwriting, and of course Retro-Fuzzy then you may have just found what you were looking for.

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