LUST MEN STANDING
Break out the smoking jacket and mix an extremely dry martini: Sydney's debonair kings of suave voodoo garage rock and roll, the Intercontinental Playboys, are unveiling another ode to lust and lasciviousness in the shape of a silver CD platter.
''Hymns of the Flesh'' is due out on August 8 on I-94 Bar Records and will be launched at the Ivory Lounge, Ultimo, on Saturday August 15.
''Hymns Of The Flesh'' takes the organ-driven fuzz-tone finesse for which the Playboys are world-renowned and adds a sharper pop hook dimension.
After 10 years as unwavering, persistent constants in the airhead-sphere of Sydney, the band decided it was time for a follow-up to ''Sonic Seducers'' their successful debut long-player on Off the Hip.
Two years of studio work later, ''Hymns Of The Flesh'' is here.
Recorded at Sydney's Tardis Studio (Johnny Casino, The Booby Traps) and mixed by Mike Burnham, the sounds that emanate will leave you, and those with whom you are intimate, breathless.
Solemn? No. Flesh-centric? Yes. There will be sweat. And delightfully so.
Original Playboys Tommy, Benedict and Michelangelo have been augmented by Bobby on drums and the sound is more formidable than ever.
Those impressed by their initial audacious and throbsome move to ''Hammond organ as bass'' will be sonically KO'd, again, by the sounds enclosed within ''Hymns Of The Flesh''. Newcomers? Watch Out! You will be violated, in ways unexpected, dexterous, and memorable.
It's the band's fourth notable release, following ''Sonic Seducers'' and the ''Ladies May We Introduce Ourselves'' and ''Just Turn On'' EPs.
The Playboys sound has been likened to a lot of notable bands from garages and other dark places (The Cramps, The Music Machine, the Fuzztones and The Stranglers among them) but everyone has a different take on these remarkable gentlemen.
What will they do for you? Find out when you wrap your ears around ''Hymns Of The Flesh''.
Out August 8 on I-94 Bar Records. Preview tracks here.
Can't wait for this one!
They are such a great band live too
Playing Melbourne in soon with Wrong Turn.
The Intercontinental Playboys launch their new album >>HYMNS OF THE FLESH<< on
I-94 Bar Records THIS SATURDAY NIGHT (AUG 15) at the Ivory Lounge in Ultimo (Harris St, cnr Mary Ann St, from 8.30pm).
They will be joined by very special guests MINK JAGUAR, LA MANCHA NEGRA and DJs DOCTOR J and THE KING OF ERSKINEVILLE.
Can you write a bio for my band barman?
I was eating hundreds and thousands cookies with the guitarist the other day. Whoops I dropped a name. Can anyone pick it up for me? My back is sore.
Connoisseurs APB! This Saturday night at the Ivory Lounge. No morsels... just lashings and lashings of it.
Out NOW! Finally.
for some reason this band name reminds me of Steve Vai, i could have sworn he played in a band called Intercontinental Playboys, but wiki reveals otherwise