limited indies only "karloff green" lp if 2022’s ‘thank god! it’s the dream machine’, was their first and most wild child, then ‘small time monsters’ is its refined younger sibling. the psychedelia, euphoric choruses, flashes of surf guitar and b-movie references are all there, amongst the familiar reflections of life in their seaside town of new brighton. but, this time, the wilder elements are controlled, the songs packed into three-minute pocket symphonies. lead single, ‘frankenstein’, is an anthem for the sugar-rush generation, an infectious, rattling earworm that recalls everything from haunted rockabilly to the sun-drenched melodies of blossoms. elsewhere on the album, the pulsating surf-stomp of ‘cindy’s eyes’, a small-town story of unrequited love, has a chorus to fill the most cavernous arena.
limited indies only "karloff green" lp if 2022’s ‘thank god! it’s the dream machine’, was their first and most wild child, then ‘small time monsters’ is its refined younger sibling. the psychedelia, euphoric choruses, flashes of surf guitar and b-movie references are all there, amongst the familiar reflections of life in their seaside town of new brighton. but, this time, the wilder elements are controlled, the songs packed into three-minute pocket symphonies. lead single, ‘frankenstein’, is an anthem for the sugar-rush generation, an infectious, rattling earworm that recalls everything from haunted rockabilly to the sun-drenched melodies of blossoms. elsewhere on the album, the pulsating surf-stomp of ‘cindy’s eyes’, a small-town story of unrequited love, has a chorus to fill the most cavernous arena.
limited indies only "karloff green" lp if 2022’s ‘thank god! it’s the dream machine’, was their first and most wild child, then ‘small time monsters’ is its refined younger sibling. the psychedelia, euphoric choruses, flashes of surf guitar and b-movie references are all there, amongst the familiar reflections of life in their seaside town of new brighton. but, this time, the wilder elements are controlled, the songs packed into three-minute pocket symphonies. lead single, ‘frankenstein’, is an anthem for the sugar-rush generation, an infectious, rattling earworm that recalls everything from haunted rockabilly to the sun-drenched melodies of blossoms. elsewhere on the album, the pulsating surf-stomp of ‘cindy’s eyes’, a small-town story of unrequited love, has a chorus to fill the most cavernous arena.
