WHITE DOG ROUGH AGAIN
GENRE | CARNYCORE
VERDICT | GETCHA POPCORN READY
LABEL | SELF-RELEASED
RELEASE | 5.13.11
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It starts, like an old barn-housed engine, with a blast of smoke, harmonicas that creek like rusty wheels and the percussive banjo rattling of startled chickens. By the time that leadoff tune “Misery” is fully airborne, it’s already apparent that Mighty Tiny has constructed a retro-futuristic flying machine using tin-pan alley songwriter tools and quasi-modern metals, with tendrils of gypsy punk fabric and Appalachian stringwork dangling from the cabin windows. It’s like the Hindenburg with better wiring!
For their full-length debut, the Mighty TIny misfits in dell’arte masks have medicated their stylistic psychosis with some added milligrams of steady-handed songcraft. The prescription leavesroom for erratic behavior and mood swings, falling somewhere between Faith No More and Mr. Bungle with veins oiled more so by Tom Waits’ whiskey than Mike Patton’s espresso.
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