The Devils – Let The World Burn Down
Release Date: 9th February 2024
Label: Go Down Records
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Genre: Rock’n’Roll, Alternative, Blues Rock.
FFO: BRMC, Crazy Cavan ‘n’ the Rhythm Rockers.
Review By: Paul Franklin
Back in Fifties America, there was a huge moral panic caused by the rise of Rock’n’roll. A new form of music that white middle-class parents were terrified would turn their precious teenage offspring into (amongst other things) rebellious sexualized deviants. If this new album by the Italian duo of Erika Switchblade and Gianni Blacula had been around then, those parents would have comprehensively shat their pants and then had a cataclysmic heart attack (or the other way round!)
Let The World Burn Down is rock’n’roll in its most primal, raw sexual state.
There is a voyeuristic excitement in listening to these ten tracks, like going to the bathroom in a club and stumbling upon a couple unashamedly rutting each other senseless in the next cubicle. If Let The World Burn Down was a website, you’d be looking to immediately delete your browser history.
Skipping any subtle foreplay, Divine Is The Illusion grinds up against you with some dirty riffs and sultry vocals from Ms Switchblade. Killer’s Kiss starts with a fuzzed-up riff that sounds a bit like Muse if Matt Bellamy had grown up in Detroit rather than Devon. However, it’s the third track that is the early money shot, as Mr Hot Stuff explodes with all the thrill and danger of getting a handjob under the dinner table from your mum’s fit best friend.
A mid-session breather is supplied by the slower, but still raw, Till Life Do Us Part, before the fast and frantic Roar II, which is best described as the sound of a hot rod race in the middle of a Mexican shoot out.
Teddy Girl Boogie (an adapted cover of Teddy Boy Boogie by Crazy Cavan ‘n’ The Rhythm Rockers) belies its cutesy title with an ominous air of malevolence and the very real possibility of getting your head kicked in. The climax is reached with the aptly named Horror and Desire, and then in just over 30 minutes it’s done. You’re spent.
But, do you know what? Give it five minutes and you’re ready to go again!
(4.5 / 5)
