A-FRAMES : “POLICE 1000 / TRACTION” 45.....

There are two different A-FRAMES at work these days: the bleak, techno-blurred mechano-garage band of this year’s CD “Black Forest”, and the ones who keep releasing new 45s from their 2001-03 youth as a thudding, precision punk rock band. I love ‘em both, and I’m glad they’re both still “going at it”. This one is from their earlier days, the same sessions that yielded the last few 45s, and it’s a real gem. “Police 1000” is a rollicking, carnival-like romp with obscured vocals and a big-ass bass bringing the low end noise to your living room loud-n-fast. “Traction” is booming 1974 T.Rex/Slade glam panic mixed up with an early-SPK level of screech & feedback whine, a total winning mix that I haven’t heard them tackle before quite this well. Whoa. I’d call this the band’s hottest 45 since the world-beating debut “Neutron Bomb / Radiation Generation”, and since these things tend to disappear into the murky collector netherworld rather quickly, best get involved with an order for it right away.
posted by Jay H. at 9:03 AM