The purveyors of alternative blues
music known as Pussy Stomp have released their latest full-length
record, “Guide for Shy Guys.” The album has been proudly
published on the Hopetone Records independent music label, which has
been steadily garnering attention since its popular release of
Takoma's “Kerosene Belts” LP in late 2014. An aggressive, rocking
and rolling blues record with a Gothic heart and a punk-rock soul,
“Guide for Shy Guys” is an album with a ton of grit and style to
spare.
Pussy Stomp cite as main influences
many legends of sonic subculture such as the Birthday Party, the
Cramps, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Big Black, Cop Shoot Cop, the
Jesus Lizard, PJ Harvey, the Smiths, the Fall, Siouxsie and the
Banshees, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Nevertheless, their own sound is
largely founded on the same blues tradition which gave rise to
performers like Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker.
“We adore those bands from the
British new wave of the '80s and the post rock of the 1990s,” they
write, “but we also love old blues and folk songs.”
Pussy Stomp are an Italian duo
consisting of Skip Roberta and Buddy Chu Vanvera. Their official
website pegs their sound as having come from out of the desert of
Sardinia, one of the largest and most historically significant desert
systems of Europe. Their new “Guide for Shy Guys” has been
published on the heels of their “Superslut” EP, which hit shelves
in 2014 courtesy of the Two Side Records label.
Asked to comment on the themes of their
new record, they write, “We are not that wise! And we sing about
even-less-wise characters. You know, people like Teddy Beer, or Belly
Worm...”
Music by Pussy Stomp, like many of the
most time-honored blues songs, is full of storytelling and narrative,
much of it shadowy and amusingly irreverent.
“Maybe our album is a guide and an
ode to shy guys like them, but all we feel like saying is B-Loose!”
The advice alludes to one of their more prominent singles on the LP.
“Find your own way, even in the darkest swamp.”
“Guide for Shy Guys” by Pussy Stomp
is available online worldwide. Get in early.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
“Guide for Shy Guys” by Pussy
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