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Thick Shakes – Tell Her (I Said So) – Live @ Cake Shop, NY 11/25
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Deep Pockets b/w Gimme Time
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Why Buy the Cow up now
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“Organ-pounding rave-ups …torched beyond recognition with blown-out tape distortion and AM-radio sizzle…. ‘Go Back to New York’ is a firestorm of a kiss-off, all acid-drenched Farfisa with a little Cab Calloway mojo to boot. And that’s the calm, collected one of the bunch. ‘Neighbor’s Goods’ and ‘Banned From the Laundromat’ kick things way past the red with frenzied, terrifying tempos and a twisted rockabilly one-two that could make a Cramps record sound like Muzak.” -Boston Globe
“Thick Shakes… are interested much less in making you think than making you dance, pumping out gem after garage-rock gem like it’s their mission in life. Mission accomplished, guys.” -Metro
“An aural whirlwind so keen that the lyrics namedrop Frederick Law Olmsted.”
-Boston Phoenix MP3 of the Week“Tumbledown stomp, distorted power chords, and insistent organ into super fun 1960s-infused garage rock jams… Why Buy the Cow finds the band’s vocals delivered with more of a sneer and a large dose of Bostonian “Go f**k yo’self” bravado.” -Radio K Track of the Day
“Punks don’t often encounter organs (not the religious kind, anyway), but Thick Shakes’ rabble-rousing, armpit-dampening throwback meshes the two together in delicious delirium.” Some Of It Was True (UK)
“The band has taken 1960s organ-based rock and roll and cranked it to a punked up fuzzed out level. Bring on the F-U-Z-Z.” – Gimme Tinnitus
“The super-infectious single “Go Back to New York” …is going straight on my short list for track of the year.” -QRO Magazine
“A wonderfully uncluttered, joyous form of proto garage-rock that is simple, unaffected and damn catchy.”
-Mad Mackerel (UK)“Music that virtually does not exist anymore… The entire EP leaves you wanting to hear more.”
-Oh So Fresh! Music“There’s such a ramshackle sense of enjoyment to Thick Shakes ‘Go Back To New York.’ As if the sundry members of this band were a bunch of shabbily dressed neurons, ricocheting about a pee-stained practice space, their instruments crumbling as they implode.” Sound on the Sound
“Dark, distorted, organ drenched, fuzzed out 60s rock n roll.” –MAXIMUMROCKNROLL
“Lo-fi punk, equally as inspired by Nancy Sinatra as by Tunnel of Love.” -RareAustin
“Hip-shaking, stabbing fuzz rock.” -Performer Magazine
“Shag-carpet-beat-the-stuffing-out-of-your-teddy-distortion.” Weekly Tape Deck
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