 Garage punk howlers from Madrid, Spain, Juanita y Los Feos come at you like a trashy, raunchy hurricane, blasting in off the Mediterranean, tearing across La Costa Del Sol before striking ground where they wreak their havoc. Fronted by the endlessly charismatic lead singer, Juanita y Los Feos blend trashy, mutated surf guitar vibes with the manic energy of classic punk bands like X and the Avengers to create some unholy, distorted mid-fi punky garage rock.
Think of your favorite high energy surf punk bands of yore, like Agent Orange, fused with an edgy, methed up B-52’s and you’ll begin to get the idea. Frazzled dischords of surf guitar chopping through sixties laced organs. And then there’s Juanita, belting it out with more energy than a fifth grade classroom on Red Bull. Confident and steady, her shrieks are penetrating and full out captivating.
Never longer than two and three-quarters minutes, each song is a sonic blast of adrenaline, riding its own garage beat all the way through your cerebellum. “El Abujero,” is a frantic ride of fuzzed garage guitar. “Madre Soltera,” ushers in the mutated organ, undermining the frantic punk energy. “Reina Por Un Dia,” is the best B-52’s song they never recorded, but should have back when they were young and cool and still into punk. “Maldito Desagradecido,” follows this same pattern, bouncy surf guitar riffs under Juantia’s screaming protests, sounding like something from a coked out Annette Funicello movie. “No Tengo Ritmo,” my personal favorite is a nonstop blast of bouncing organs, jaunty guitars and an incessant beat, bringing back the best of balls out fun punk from days gone by.
Juanita y Los Feos shouldn’t be missed by fans of high energy punk. Never less than mesmerizing, Juanita y Los Feos is a tattered, ruptured treasure brought to us by the good folks at Dead Beat Records (www.dead-beat-records.com). A cacophony of punk, short blasts of surf garage distortion. A trashy motherlode of timeless gems, fuelled up and methed up for the new generation. Actually, it’s lots of things, and all of them are good. The Ripple Effect, www.ripplemusic.blogspot.com |
