NIXON`S HEAD - Enemies List

Nixon`s Head marks 25 years of garage-pop independence with the release of Enemies List. Stuck on a station on the car radio, somewhere between AM and FM and from 1967 to 1973, the 11 new songs offer a darker, dare we say, bluesier side of the band. But this isn`t your Blueshammer fan`s blues, as the pounding intro by drummer Seth Baer and bassist Mike Frank on the lead-off track "Done Dealing" quickly indicates. Singer Andy Rosenau and lead guitarist Jim McMahon have their mojo workin` on "Never Been Down," but they`re no friend of the devil. From the concentrated epic guitar jam of "The Witness" (featuring organist Dorothy Haug and Photon Band`s Art DiFuria) to the slow burn of guitarist Jim Slade`s "Richmond," the beat group-obsessed Nixon`s Head has inched into its personal 1969. The band`s trademark self-mockery and gentle self-loathing are intact on songs like "nglish Envy" and "Yesterday`s Party" and they`re still having a rave-up on "Really Starting Something" but Enemies List presents a heavier Nixon`s Head, man, the way they were meant to sound. Some of these songs sound like The Monkees during their psych "Head" period or The Kinks on LSD -- they are pushing it hard and succeeding on most accounts.

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