{"id":37958,"date":"2004-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/right-about-now\/"},"modified":"2004-05-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T00:00:00","slug":"right-about-now","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/right-about-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Right About Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life somehow seems to unveil silver linings under the strangest
\nof circumstances. For instance, back in January, I placed an order
\nwith a favorite online music store of mine in the Scandanavian
\nreaches that was very top heavy in recordings by \u00d6rebro,
\nSweden’s punk\/garage act, the Peepshows. There are a couple of
\nreasons for this that I won’t attempt to bore everyone with, but
\nfundamentally, I knew the Peepshows had a history worth checking
\nout that exceeded the handful of releases that were already in my
\ncollection.<\/p>\n

Back to the story. It’s now May and I still haven’t received my
\norder, which has recently caused me to dig into my collection and
\nplay the albums I do have to the point of ad nauseum. Now, I’ll
\nattempt to begin recreating the Peepshows history by revisiting the
\nband’s first EP,
\nRight About Now<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Dual guitars, bass, drums, and vocals, with a lineup put
\ntogether in the traditional sense, had this Swedish quartet laying
\ndown seven tracks in conventional two to three minute romps
\nbefitting the biting punk rock style and dark rooted urgency that
\nthe band’s Norwegian neighbors, Turbonegro, perfected with their
\nthen recent release,
\n
\nAss Cobra<\/a>
\n<\/i> .<\/p>\n

While the opening riffs of “Sometime-O-Time” define this claim,
\nthey loop themselves in just enough of a distinctive fashion to
\ngive the track its own cache and avoid the claim of being merely a
\nduped Turbonegro effort. The guitar tone throughout this album
\nborders on death punk, but singer Adde Wolfbrandt, aka Addey’O,
\ndoesn’t attempt to mirror the same sinister vocal pitch as Hank von
\nHelvete.<\/p>\n

For some folks,
\nRight About Now<\/i> might be categorized as an action rock album
\nset to guitar tones that are just heavy enough to avoid comparisons
\nto the Detroit action rock scene of the 1970’s. The title track and
\n“Dirty Motherfucker” are songs that subtly develop the loosely
\ncrafted guitar solos that might give this action rock definition
\ncredence, but I’m still of the opinion that
\nRight About Now<\/i> is an album on an upbeat punk mission first
\nbefore it decides to dance into the hybrid definition of punk n’
\nroll.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, I can now see where the Peepshows paved the way
\nfor their neighbors, the Hives, to capture fleeting success with
\nthe chorus that catapulted their 2000 recording “Hate to Say I Told
\nYou So” up the charts with their track, “I Don’t Wanna.” After
\nhearing this track, maybe the Peepshows should have “wanna’d” a bit
\nmore, if you catch my drift.<\/p>\n

So, in conclusion, I’ve heaped praise on every Turbonegro album
\nI’ve reviewed in the past as well as affixed myself with being
\nknown as an action rock fan.
\nRight About Now<\/i> is an EP that only serves to deepen my
\ninterest in these genres and is an initial effort that was well
\ndone. Credit the botched courier service for forcing me to focus on
\nlistening to the Peepshows releases I do have and not the ones I
\ndon’t, as I wrongfully thought the that newer material might be the
\nbetter place to start in building my assessment of the band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":26701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7021],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-37958","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-peepshows","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37958"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}