Shreveport’s pocket of freaky stomp-rockers The Electric Dollhouse Groove Buggy have rocketed out the gate with their raucous new EP Cryin’, Dyin’ and Fourth of Julyin’ , out now on up n’ coming Nashville label Jeffery Drag. Laid down in a few steamy sessions at the infamous Battletapes studio (think Bad Cop, Turbo Fruits, Pujol among other awesome peers..), Cryin’ lopes along, searing guitar riffs lofted by a cacophony of stomping rhythm, a myriad of incidental instruments and choirs and subtle effects charge the songs with crackling electricity and immediacy.
This shit is intimate and enveloping and totally catchy bad-ass rock n roll. Every song sinks it’s teeth in, from the fuzzily salacious lope of opening chant “To Hell With The Ocean Anyway”, a deep horn laden riff replete with a maniacal laughter breakdown. The joyous sax-driven r’nb stomp on “Devil’s In ME Darling” is pure rock bliss, somehow evoking early Deadly Snakes for me. A collective breath is taken on the twisted waltz of “Hammer Coming Down”, which despite being a slower number still punches energetically and throws effortless and transcendent chord changes at your brain. “A Place In Hell” revs the machine back up with some hard, guitar-driven blues punk fun and the EP capitulates with the summery singalong stomp of “Everywhere I Go”, which deserves a golden spot on road-trip and tour tapes forever.
Cryin’, Dyin’ and Fourth of Julyin’ ‘s triumph is not only the obviously skilled musicians that crafted this devilish masterpiece, but in how it captures the vivid spirit of the blissfully druggy but focused ferality of rock and roll, drawing deep from the dark inheritance of that northwestern nook of Louisiana. The madly sublime and chaotic vibe of The Electric Dollhouse Groove Buggy is for real and that vibe bleeds through and underscores every note on this fat slice of earcandy.
