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Hot Water Music have won respect for their uncompromising stance, their frighteningly impassioned live shows and--rare, this--their musical ability. A Flight and a Crash begins as if the band fully intend to be bleeding all over their instruments before the CD's through. The title track is searing rock & roll, complete with whining Jet Boy backing vox, incendiary guitars and rough-house vocals so pained and convinced that The Wipers' "Over the Edge" is instantly brought to mind--it's that good. "Swinger" is like the Clash at their darkest, punchiest and most morbid. "Sons and Daughters" possesse
Hot Water Music have won respect for their uncompromising stance, their frighteningly impassioned live shows and--rare, this--their musical ability. A Flight and a Crash begins as if the band fully intend to be bleeding all over their instruments before the CD's through. The title track is searing rock & roll, complete with whining Jet Boy backing vox, incendiary guitars and rough-house vocals so pained and convinced that The Wipers' "Over the Edge" is instantly brought to mind--it's that good. "Swinger" is like the Clash at their darkest, punchiest and most morbid. "Sons and Daughters" possesses some of the epic frustration of the Dead Boys' "Ain't It Fun", while "She Takes It So Well", with a quite beautiful piano break, is slow but tremendously moving. Hot Water Music are a tough band gratifyingly unafraid to deal in weakness, sorrow and suffering--emotion with good music and without the unpardonable wimpiness. This is one of the very best punk bands of their generation. --Dominic Wills
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Manufacturer: Epitaph
Release date: 28 May 2001
EAN: 8714092661422
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