Fueled with the same octane as Motorhead, New York City’s Turbo
\nA.C.’s have apparently struck the same deal with the devil as Lemmy
\nand his mates with the hammering attitude and pointed messages
\ndelivered on
\nAvenue X<\/i>, the band’s fifth full-length album.<\/p>\n
While the Turbo A.C.’s have a very distinctive surf-punk, guitar
\ndrive found in their music — think Dick Dale for a minute — they
\neasily hearken memories with their delivery of punk messages in
\nanthem-like, rallying-cry fashion similar to British punk bands
\nlike the Clash.
\nAvenue X<\/i> is an album simple in its mission and with little
\ndeviation in attempting to do much more than shooting for the
\njugular, wrenching it a bit, and yielding a series of chorus filled
\nohhhh’s and yeahhhh’s.<\/p>\n
And it’s for this reason I usually hate to do reviews on
\nsingle-geared adrenaline rushes. For sure, I identify with the
\nmusic, but the music usually hits me like a groin shot. That is, it
\nleaves me rather breathless and at a loss for words. Of course,
\nAvenue X<\/i> is more than frat-boy rock as the album aptly
\ncareens in the direction of certain fiendish, drunken debauchery
\nscenes. Of course we are talking here about the hellraisers with
\nwhom the girls have gone home long ago.<\/p>\n
Whether it’s the roller coaster ride of guitar sounds and
\nwhiplash drumbeats found on “Knifefight” or the outlaw vibe the
\nguitar tuning of “Fistful Of Fury” delivers, I have to say that
\nit’s these two tracks that most easily grab my attention. Lead
\nvocalist Kevin Cole actually splits the lyrics in “Fistful of Fury”
\nbetween the English and Spanish languages as he plays the narrative
\ngestapo role to the song’s storyline. Make no mistake, this fistful
\nof fury sounds very reminiscent of a border crossing gone bad.<\/p>\n
Notably rare for a punk album,
\nAvenue X<\/i> steers clear of any noticeable political
\ncommentary. Most of the songs rely on topics spurring the wagging
\nof middle fingers which in a way is refreshing. It’s actually more
\nfun to watch poseurs like Green Day continually make jackasses of
\nthemselves as they fool many with their perceived lyrical anguish.
\nCall it an east coast\/west coast thing but as with most New York
\npunk scenesters, the Turbo A.C.s legitimize their punk output in
\nways that most of their Blink-182-styled California-based brethren
\nfail as they contrive cheeky imagery in equal step with their
\nlyrical message.<\/p>\n
That’s not to say that punk has to always rely on serious
\ntopics, but the Turbo A.C.’s, at the end of the day, make sure that<\/p>\n
Avenue X<\/i> is the path best traveled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":27106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7179],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-38443","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-turbo-a-c-s","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38443","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=38443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/38443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=38443"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=38443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}