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As you might expect from a band called Burning Itch with a picture of a man in a blonde wig holding a sex doll on their LP sleeve, these guys don't take themselves super seriously. Probably for the best, otherwise they might start to dredge up some deeply buried memories of the itch trials that they just don't wanna relive. What we're listening to on this here debut LP is some simplistic and upbeat garage punk/power pop which makes up in charm what it lacks in originality. The constant pop hooks are reminding me a little bit of a slowed down Marked Men or something; like '60s pop but louder and faster. The songs are well-written and the delivery is rough around the edges. Charming and raucous stuff.
Three dudes from Knoxville, TN where the GG Allin runs like the shits and the water is tainted with moonshine piss. Burning Itch are pure, unadulterated punk rock inspired as much by getting fucked up as they are by obscure, KBD-private-press vinyl. S/T is their first LP and does not disappoint...so long as you WANTED a payoff on the promise of their "machine-gun-toting" self-released 7", and the subsequent ragers on both Goodbye Boozy and Leather Bar. Yessir, the boys n girls with a hankering to get drunk to some loud, completely unpretentious punk rock ought to get their rocks off on this bad boy just fine. Recommended pairing: goes great with shooting fireworks off the Smokey Mountains at college students.
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