THE CHROME CRANKS aren't as well know as the GORIES or the OBLIVIANS..... but they certainly should be......
their propulsive noisy blues punk is one of a kind...... think GUN CLUB, PUSSY GALORE, JOHN LEE HOOKER, THE CRAMPS, THE SCIENTISTS and SONIC YOUTH all put into a blender and cranked up all the way until everything catches on fire............
the new lp AINT NO LIES IN BLOOD is coming out this month on bang! / thick syrup records....... and it just might surpass their classic albums, LOVE IN EXILE or DEAD COOL......
i can't wait to hear the whole thing........
here's what people are saying about AINT NO LIES.....
PETER from THE CHROME CRANKS.......The new album is called Ain’t No Lies in Blood, and it blows away everything else we’ve done. I AM NOT LYING: It’s louder, bigger, harder, noisier, and nastier than any of other our other records—by far. Seriously. The front cover was hand drawn especially for us by Michael Gira (Swans, Angels of Light). The record definitely has a lot of the dark, bluesy stuff people will expect from the Cranks, but, oddly, to me much of it is the closest to straight-up punk that we’ve ever come (but not too close, of course!). Some of it makes me think of Black Flag or early hardcore (my roots are showing, perhaps). So that might be surprising to some. There are also some surprise covers on the album—but I won’t ruin the surprise by telling you! But most of all I think we all surprised ourselves, maybe, by making our best, most brutal album when we’re a bunch of old men, haha!
Michael Gira of THE SWANS...[The Chrome Cranks] had me screaming with joy [at their renunion show]...I almost threw my beer at them, I was so happy.
Blue Collar Distro.......Since the 2009 reactivation of the classic 1990s lineup of the Chrome Cranks fans have been grinding their teeth for a new album of the influential New York band’s volatile, high-octane blasts. In these chokingly bleak, post-ironic times there simply aren’t any other acts out there like the Cranks, who play unapologetically confrontational, utterly incendiary rock ’n’ roll like they mean it with every poisoned pore. Like few bands before or since, the foursome simultaneously embraces and destroys rock’s very traditions. But finally this soft, pain-deserving world has something new to choke on: Ain’t No Lies in Blood, the first album of new Chrome Cranks material since 1997. In keeping with the band’s earlier oeuvre, it’s another swirling hell of dark, raw, distorted blues-based squalls; hypnotic, labyrinthine detours through primordial swampland; and searing flashes of deep, torchy drama. This release, however, strips the outfit’s minimal, no-bullshit M.O. even farther down, to its most savage and primal essence. There’s the locomotive, open-wounded wail of “I’m Trash,” which flattens all in its path and hints at early ’80s hardcore angst, and “Rubber Rat,” a screaming, stomping mess of bony, cartilage-cracking fists. Three radically remade covers include an epic trawl through the Byrds’ “Lover of the Bayou,” and of course the Cranks’ trademark murky ’n’ moody side is present in all its black, jagged glory: Check the swaggering decadence of “Let it Ring” and “Star to Star.”
listen to two tracks off the new album below.......
and go buy this lp.....
its gonna be on my turntable the whole month.........
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