BACKFIRE Volume 5, No. 4
Born too late to visit CBGB in its heyday? Well, so were Rotten Apples, but that hasn’t stopped them from cranking out some amazingly authentic ‘70s New York-style punk. This possibly all-female band (their CD lists women on all instruments, but their promo materials suggest a male participant) variously evoke Patti Smith, Jim Carroll, and Blondie while thundering through 10 candy-coated razor blades. But where’d they get those harmonies? How’d they make that guitar sound like that? And whose bright idea was it to cover Missing Persons’ "Noticeable One" (layered vocal counterpoint and all)? Mysteries of the cosmos, my friend. Mysteries of the cosmos.
