One of Brooklyn\u2019s most celebrated unsigned live rock \u2018n\u2019 roll bands, Short Porch, deliver with their debut album, Hot and Ready. It\u2019s a rollicking, heavy riffing arrival that Beavis and Butthead could quite happily snap their necks head-banging along to.<\/p>\n
The Skinny: The perils of closing time at the bar, riding around New York City on a horse, and doomsday prepping with a shotgun that you don\u2019t know how to fire are all subjects that grace this punchy paroxsym of a debut. They bless it with a sense of both laughable irreverence and an eerie feeling that it is a prescient pasquinade of a future not too far from the present.<\/p>\n
The band even admit that songs like \u2018Final Human\u2019 started as a stupid joke before the maddening world edged them closer to serious satire. But that\u2019s also the crowning triumph of the record: somehow, from the wailing guitars and comically off-kilter lyrics, you\u2019re instilled with the refreshing feeling of friends in their cappuccino years kicking out the jams while they still can.<\/p>\n
Augmented by Sean McNulty\u2019s unique, characterful delivery and a real sense of ego-free originality, the string-snapping, cymbal-crashing indie world of Hot and Ready is a blitzkreig that all but barrels you down to the nearest bar even though you were curled up on the sofa contemplating life just moments ago.<\/p>\n
The Verdict: The decidedly daring DIY production imbues Hot and Ready with a sense that Short Porch are the last live (and living) band on Earth. They subvert the nostalgia of songs like \u2018Surrender\u2019 by Cheap Trick with wry neorealism in a fresh, thrasy, careworn way, giving the impression that this is a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll classic unstuck in time, eschewed from the late 1970s for being set in 2037, and not taking itself seriously enough, dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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