Label: Thrill Jockey Format: CD
It all starts very well with “American Kooter”‘, funky in more ways than one and it reminds me of early Cabaret Voltaire; yes! “Now you die, Thriddle Fool” delightfully homicidal Electro or “Strong Sensations” – a riffing orgy the other side of Ritchie Blackmore‘s hair curlers.
But besides that it all gets a bit lazy. But so it should be, because this is a collection of out-takes and obscure live stuff. It’s for the fans, so to speak. Most of this material was released in Japan to flog the fanatical market there. The men of Trans Am seem to like to get drunk on Asahi rather than be big in Japan, as the pictures in the sleeve notes so graphicly depict. So, the guys decided to collect all this on to one disc at a fair price, because they don’t want to rip off their fans. Very well, but it gets tired after twenty minutes and this disc clocks in at sixty. But by all means go and get a proper release, ‘cos Trans Am surely have more fun and Rock harder than their fellow post-pub-rock brethren.
-Dag Luterek-
