Slovenly Recordings, March 20, 2020
Moron’s Morons are out to burn down the place. On Looking For Danger, they pretty much do.
Warsaw, Poland’s Moron’s Morons are here to burn down the place. They don’t care much for reverence or prettiness, and you aren’t going to find either on Looking For Danger. They want to get things nasty and don’t care about our judgments. If you’re looking for points of reference, I hear a bunch. There’s a bunch of Germs and The Damned thrown into the mix and maybe even some Supersuckers and New Bomb Turks. But in the whirlwind, the most obvious reference for me is Motorhead. I don’t know that the music is all that similar, and the vocals don’t sound like Lemmy by any stretch. But that pure spirit beholden to down and dirty no frills rock and roll is all over this thing.
The songs on Looking For Danger mostly go by in a noisy wall-of-distortion blur with pulverizing drums and fuzzed-out guitars, pulsing hypnotic bass and manically perverse vocals. Standouts include the fantastic guitar riffs in opener “Rise With Me” and “Rate Your Teacher”, the pumping organ that bleeds below the surface of “Sidewalk Service”, the piano (maybe?) banging around on “Poor Man’s Riffs And Ten Years Too Late”, and the silly boogie rock guitar on the absurdly titled “You Put Hot In Psychotic”. And if you’re looking for singalongs, the dumb chorus on “Wonderlust” will certainly do the trick. For the most part, Moron’s Morons put the foot down and don’t ever really let up.
As for misses, I can’t quite stick with them through the last two songs. “Driller Killer” is okay, falling in line with the other songs on here in terms of style and sound. But it goes on for nearly 5 minutes. The same goes for closer “The Man Who Drank Too Much”. They don’t suck as songs and the riff on “Drank” is cool. But the record is straight blistering rock and roll from the get go, with brief respite in between mostly 2-minute bursts. Tacking two songs onto the end that push 5 minutes each makes them a tough slog. My already small attention span just wasn’t built for that.
Anyway, Looking For Danger is a pretty nasty blast for the most part. The songs are clattering and destroyed and hopped up on all sorts of silly energy. Sure, it can be pulverizing and mind numbing, but it can just as easily be the shot of adrenaline that’ll get you through the day. Now I gotta go wash the nastiness off.
You might like this if:
- You want your rock and roll dangerous and burned down
You might not if:
- You want singalongs and hooks and a little bit of refinement to your records
ryan is a reviewer and news editor for TGEFM. He’s very secretive, he might be an alien.
