Faster Pussycat was once one of my favorite bands. Their debut album is a classic sleaze album, which still gets played often.
"The Power and the Glory Hole" is the first studio album from
Faster Pussycat in 14 years. The line-up has changed since vocalist Taime Downe is the only original member left.
Prior to this album release the band had published the first single
Number one with a Bullet as a teaser on the Internet. The song has an okay drive and sounded quite promising.
However,
Faster Pussycat has taken the same path as the remix album, where they re-recorded the old sleaze classics in industrial versions. "The Power and the Glory Hole" is a brand new album with original songs, but all wrapped up in a tiring cold industrial sound.
Several of Chad Steward's drum beats are programmed and if you listen to the latest Newlydeads album "Dreams from a Dirt Nap"" - also just out on Full Effect Records - the programmed drum beats on both records are very alike.
Taime Downe had a cool voice but now he uses effects and doubles his vocals. Sadly he thereby looses most of his characteristic tone.
In the long run the programming and industrial sounds get exhausting. A song like
Useless lives up to its name and seems to last 30 minutes... The more you get into the record it the music feels like quicksand. It sucks you down in a bottomless pit in a very unpleasant way.
The upside is a guest performance from Dregen (Backyard Babies) who lays down a solid solo on
Disintegrate. The melody for
Sex Drugs and Rock N Roll is pretty good if you strip it down - however, wrapped up in this sound and noise it sounds awful
Faster Pussycat's debut is a classic and all of their 3 albums are Hard Rock "gems". Based on those 3 records you affiliate
Faster Pussycat with the Sleaze/Hard Rock scene, but their music has distanced away from Hard Rock and quite far away from the
Faster Pussycat we know (and love).
The exact same band members also outlive their industrial dreams in Newlydeads and right now
Faster Pussycat is not only the same band as Newlydeads, they sound the same as well. Besides money I see no purpose for Taime Downe to use the
Faster Pussycat name.
Call up Eric Stacy, Brent Muscat and Gregg Steele or stop vanishing the
Faster Pussycat brand. What a shame and what a disappointing album!
Written by
Michael Monday, January 22, 2007
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