Tuff Luvs "Heartburn" (New Art School)
By Abel Folgar
Friday. Jan 27, 12:00 PM
Sweet dirty rock and roll!

This sizzling red slab of delicious 7" wax by Jackson, MS's garage punkers Tuff Luvs features four scorching redneck garage numbers. Side A opens with dirty guitar feedback before planting some four-on-the-floor rhythm for the title track. This raging quintet doesn't dilly-dally on this two-minute sing-along, with more dirty riffage and female inspired gastrointestinal discomfort. "Addicted to You" closes the five minute side with more rock and roll oriented punk, slicked with Pabst Blue Ribbon vocals and more cymbal-ready percussion. Shit, do I love me some distortion!

The flip's one-two punch of "Black and Blue" and "Put it in Your Throat" is less subtle, with all the required distorted parts accelerating the vocal assault of teenage violence marked in the former and the not-so-subtle innuendo of the latter. This reminds me of The Devil Dogs’ Get on Your Knees 7", though I feel a good dirtier when the needle lifts! Fans of classic region rockers The Bad Roads, The Oblivians, The Greenhornes, and/or Australia's The Saints will feel right at home on these 33 1/3 rpms. Dust off the turntable, put your beer down on the wooden table without a coaster, and turn the volume knob all the way up… up enough to wake your dead grandmammie.
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Abel Folgar

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