HITS - Hikikomori CD

CD only.

Includes FREE POSTER (if being mailed to you, the poster will add to shipping cost! We'll have to invoice you)

Fiery garage noir from Brisbane

Hits are probably the best band Rob Younger (Radio Birdman, The New Christs) has produced. They bear the influences of The Saints and Younger’s bands, but with a heavier take on garage noir.

Hikikomori tightens up the Brisbane band’s loose but promising compositions from the debut Living With You Is Killing Me (2009), winding them up like little sonic boobytraps.

The vocalist goes by Evil Dick. A tongue-in-cheek reference to The Dictators’ Handsome Dick Manitoba? Maybe not, as his vocals bear more similarity with Younger’s but more ragged, reminding of Bill Carter from The Screaming Blue Messiahs, Scott McCloud of Girls Against Boys and a touch of Mark E. Smith’s sneer.

This album is immediate with it’s high energy and low spirits, and grows even more on subsequent listens. It’s a blast of rock power performed at an MC5 level, but with no particular retro feel, even when they ably cover Joy Division’s mighty “Shadowplay.” The cover fits in well with the band’s sound, which bears a consistent signature across the album despite the variety of song styles and structures.