I just can't escape the specter of 1987. I've already posted two more titles from that year in recent weeks, but it's more coincidence than anything else. And I can't say this French trio necessarily sounded like a product of their era, barely echoing the more mainstream foundations thereof.
Vital Hours is my first (and perhaps last) encounter with
Fixed Up, whose dense aplomb wasn't straight-up garage punk, but at moments they resemble a nuanced hybrid of Lime Spiders bumping elbows with Hanoi Rocks. Fixed Up aren't exactly reinventing the wheel, but why futz with the formula considering such driving rave-up as "Purple Flashes" and the grand trifecta of tunes that close out
Vital...? To my ears, the brass section augmented to "The Limit of a Legend" and "One Night Stand" makes for something of a fly in the ointment, as these chaps were in no way, shape or form The Saints. That aside, other than a little sameness no complaints.
01. Purple Flashes
02. My Love For You
03. What's the News Today?
04. Between Her Hands
05. Speed Ahead
06. The Limit of a Legend
07. One Night Stand
08. Taste of Love
09. Physical World
10. Have You Ever Felt The Creeping Fear
11. Red Hot
12. Teenage Power
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