Review in No Brains Zine

BitchBoys: Behind the Houndog Walls

Bitch Boys are one of my favorite instro surf bands. Well, if you read No Brains reviews and interviews, you already had chance to meet these guys - and I hope get their CD. "Behind The Hound Dog Walls" is their newest (at least latest as I'm really late with this review) released on Ikebana rec. Bitch Boys will definitely kick your lazy surf ass!!! 'James Bond Theme' opens their 2nd album. It's great cover, but I prefer when Bitch Boys play other kinds of songs - like 'Final Ride' (beautiful guitar melody) or 'Match One' (super cool mix of US surf and East Euro sensibility - if you can imagine Dick Dale playing Russian ska). 'Batman Theme' goes to same category as 'James Bond Theme'. Don't get me wrong about this, these 2 songs are zillion light years far from bad, but they were covered quite often. Somehow Bitch Boys are best when they play songs where they can put more emotions in their sound. 'Na Golici + Regiment Po Cesti Gre' (probably 2 Slovenian folk traditionals) sound really great. Well to beat all I said so far about their 'James Bond' and 'Batman' covers - they did marvelous and unusual cover of 'Wipe Out' - hahahaha. Maybe I should just keep my mouth shut and enjoy the music. Anyway you get 18 great songs + 1 bonus track. Well, almost all of them are my favorites, but some I like just a bit more then others. So I must mention: 'Teenage Surf Vampires (fucking great title!!!!) - surfing after midnight can be dangerous fun, 'Bitchoola' - with nice and mystic and romantic sphere, sunny and moody 'Stay Close To Me' will melt all snow and ice and keep you warm this winter. And now something really innovating - hip hop surf 'Walk Don't Run Mr Eminem' with scratching guitar. Really really great and it came right on time. I was listening to Eminem a lot last summer - so this was nice surprise. Great combination 'Without Me' and 'Walk Don't Run' - great job guys!!!! One more song to warm you up this cold winter is 'Devojko Mala' - real beautiful instrumental version of early 60s Yugoslav pop hit. There are also cool covers of 'Misirlou', 'Apache' etc. - anyway - just get this CD and enjoy it!!!!