Bring It On!

by HorrorPops

Overview

Psychobilly. By its very name it's a kick in the pants, an emphatic wallop that metes out harmony between the greasers and punks by the thrum of standup bass. HorrorPops made a real impression with Hell Yeah, their Epitaph debut, and 2005's Bring It On! also delivers soundly. The band never gets carried away with establishing a rabid, rapid pace, or the genre's obsession with grabby ghouls and pools of blood. That stuff's in there, but it's cut with Patricia Day's endearing "girl group gone a little bad" lead vocals and dynamic songwriting that finds the most effective way to combine rockabilly thump with punk swagger, instead of the most obvious one. And HorrorPops aren't two-dimensional. While the cleverly self-referential stance of the Ramones and the Misfits forever lurks like a comforting shadow in the backgrounds of Bring It On!, "Hit 'n' Run" sounds like nothing less than an outtake from No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom and "Caught in a Blonde" is pretty straight-on punk revival. Likewise, "You vs. Me" has a slight new wave kick driving its punctuating guitar twangs. Those guitars are strong throughout, if just a little conventional -- Kim Nekroman and Geoff Kresge (Tiger Army's former bassist) unleash blasts of raucous punk or atmospheric creeping pluck as appropriate, but the whole band seems to realize it's the HorrorPops' frontwoman who's the star of this show. Day is just incredible. She's a precocious babydoll, a vengeful lover (in the '50s-style murder ballad "S.O.B.," she's ruthless), a bawdy bandleader. But most of all she's a fantastic bassist, the thumping strings of her upright leading her band along like bold page numbers in the corner of a nickel pulp novel. ~ Johnny Loftus

Product Details

Release Date:	09/13/2005
Label:	Hellcat Records
UPC:	0045778047314
Rank:	30489

Tracks

1. Freaks in Uniforms
2. Hit 'N Run
3. Bring It On!
4. It's Been So Long
5. Undefeated
6. You vs. Me
7. Crawl Straight Home
8. Trapped
9. Walk Like a Zombie
10. Where You Can't Follow
11. Caught in a Blonde
12. S.O.B.
13. Who's Leading You Now

Album Credits

Performance Credits

HorrorPops   Primary Artist
Kim Nekroman   Guitar
Brett Gurewitz   Vocals (Background)
Geoff Kresge   Guitar
Patricia Day   Chant
Nono   Chant

Technical Credits

Brett Gurewitz   Audio Production,Mixing,Producer
Patricia Day   Group Member,Composer
Greg Gordon   Engineer
Kim Nekroman   Group Member,Layout Design,Graphic Design
Pete Martinez   Engineer
Geoff Kresge   Composer,Group Member
Joshua Douglas Smith   Assistant Engineer
Octavio Arizala   Photography
Dan Gaarder   Composer
Tom Baker   Mastering
Kim Gaarde   Composer
Geoffrey Tilander   Composer
Henrik Stendahl   Composer,Group Member