comprised of members from TIMES NEW VIKING, 84 NASH and EL JESUS DE MAGICO and taking their ohio rock heritage seriously, CONNECTIONS crafts some short, sweet, fuzzed up, lo-fi / power pop jams on their debut lp PRIVATE AIRPLANE. falling somewhere between GUIDED BY VOICES, THE MICE, PRISONSHAKE and CHEATER SLICKS, CONNECTIONS bang out fifteen noise-coated janglers on their first long player in just under thirty minutes....taking the best of the flying nun catalog and combing it with a hearty slab of rowdy, drunken american indie rock straight from the heartland. imagine the CLEAN mixing it up with SEBADOH or GAUNT, but with some pop hooks that would make ROBERT POLLARD, J MASCIS and ALEX CHILTON jealous. yes this one sounds like a lost gem from the SCAT RECORDS back catalog, and that my friend is far from a bad thing.....
recorded seemingly live and just shy of in-the-red, PRIVATE AIRPLANE grabs you with its immediacy and urgency, just like the best songs off ALIEN LANES. not too noisy and not too pop oriented, it's just the right mix of power chords, feedback and fragmented melody and after just a few minutes, you'll know you're gonna be playing this album over and over again......
fans of EAT SKULL, MIKAL CRONIN, SIC ALPS, TERRY MALTS, NO AGE and any of the aforementioned bands (from ohio or otherwise) will absolutely need PRIVATE AIRPLANE.
it's just another highly recommended jam released on ANYWAY RECORDS.......
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