Blood and Venom

White Mystery, “Blood and Venom” (White Mystery Records, 2011)
Alex White gets exponentially better with each release, and this is the absolute fucking knockout LP I’ve been waiting for. The first thing to be said about Ms. White is that she can sing, the way Dusty Springfield could sing, the way Anita Baker can sing – a massive, overwhelming, yet melodic wail of emotion. Second: the music is firecracker-tight, wall-rattling blockbuster punk rock, with lots of deliciously semi-legal “quotes” from mid-‘60s Brit Invasion and garage classics. Finally, the lyrics are brilliantly sick and funny. If you like rock and roll at all, listen to this.
Try A/1, A/3, A/4
5/1/11