Oily Boys – Cro Memory Grin

Static Shock Records

£16.18

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: SSR081
Barcode: 5055869583305
Release Date: 13 Aug 2021
Genre: Alternative

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Chthonic, catatonic, chronic...Cro Memory Grin is a masterpiece. Thirteen turbocharged tracks indebted to the pleasures and pitfalls of their lives in the modern city of Sydney and to the the first and second waves of international extreme music freaks and loonies: pure fucking aggression. The Oily Boys have graced us with a beast of an album that swells between direct, gripping, tangible hardcore punk and near nauseating psychedelia and throb which at moments feels like either ritual trance or a nervous breakdown. Cro Memory Grin contains near equal measures of tension and release; an exercise in high catharsis. It’s rare that a punk record can give the listener anywhere near the same intoxicating feel of an “everything louder than everything else” live show, but that’s what Oily Boys have done. That lightning in a bottle feeling of excitement, chaotic energy, delirium, presence in a moment and frenzied flight into a mind state both frightening and ecstatic. The stone has been carved, the fire has been lit, and this is it... Cro. Memory. Grin. *** Best played LOUDEST ***

Track list: 1. Given 2. Headstone 3. C.B.D. 4. My Sex Life 5. Lizard Scheme 6. Heat Harmony 7. Stick Him 8. Cro Memory Grin 9. Blue Batman 10. Kiss The Rat 11. Green Piece 12. Cabramaverick 13. GTrance