Take a Good Look

Take a Good Look

Since the mid-1970s NYC’s Fleshtones, regardless of fashion, have delivered solid, unpretentious ‘60s-based garage rock. Thirty years later, they’re still at it, having lost none of their initial firepower. If anything, this 2008 release finds the group in stronger form, as the success of their disciples — the White Stripes, the Mooney Suzuki — and the issuance of Joe Bonomo’s long-awaited band biography Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band have completely recharged the group’s batteries. Recorded in Detroit and NYC with Stripes/ Suzuki producer Jim Diamond and CBGBs guitar legend Ivan Julian (Richard Hell & the Voidoids), respectively, Good Look is a fuzz-drenched, back to basics garage rock textbook that rattles with hawking harmonica, unrestrained unison vocals and a genuine chaos rallying around songs pegged on strong, solid hooks. “This Time Josephine,” “Feels Good To Feel” and “Down to the Ground” should be in the group’s repertoire for the next thirty years. Twelve solid tunes and no ballads allowed.

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