***"You feel the sweat running down your face, your black leather jacket sticking to your skin as you and a room full of sweaty creatins ricochet off each other dancing in ecstasy, and you look up and see a band of charged up punks muscling through their locked-in, catchy as hell set as beers are tossed through the crowd exploding like grenades- and you fucking know Lothario are so back! That’s right! The group have crash-landed with a new 13-song barn burner of an LP titled “Hogtied” out on Under The Gun Records, and it's a blistering display of focused, ear-wormy, no-frills garage punk songs designed to blow your goddamn mind. The band kicks it into high-gear on Hogtied with an array of stompy, buzz-saw hits that run the gamut of Ramones meets Bikini Kill style street punk bangers, dancey indie sleeze-esque bops, and heart-breaker rock n roll heaters. You can expect to hear locked in and memorable fuzzy riffs, over tightly-wound pummeling drums, and hyper-infectious lyrical hooks tunneling into your psyche like CIA mind-control tactics. The record is captured on a LOUD, punchy recording that’s turned up to 69 and basically sounds like a cement truck driving through an oil refinery. Lothario are at peak radioactive level performance, writing their best songs yet, and ready to recruit you into the Lothario army- sign me up, hand me a beer, and crowd surf me to the front lines- I’m ready to fight for my right to Party. Lothario’s Hogtied is...
LP $21.95
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