THEEE RETAIL SIMPS - Live On Cool Street LP

Highly recommended.

After being pigeonholed by the punk paparazzi as a lowly party band, the Simps were tasked with driving home their knack for fervent versatility. This new record captures a group, in the clutches of maturity, boasting their emotional depth, triumphant chops and humble servitude to the trade of rock 'n roll clowning.

Recalling the double speak of VU’s murder mystery, the soul bent lament of Fred Cole and the bastardized funk of Minutemen, the Simps have thusly widened their sonic palate and created yet another masterpiece of the modern age. This is the southern soul of Memphian tradesmen flipped on it’s snowy head, conjuring an impure regionalism that was largely thought to be dead and gone. An alternate kind of Northern Soul with a frosty Arctic sheen.

More spazzed out guitar, more howling lunacy, more heat of the moment, turnt poetry and outside the box-isms.

“The Simpies have done it again!” Proclaim the industrial-indie-music-complex!

Bolstered by the angelic croon of theee Simpettes and the honking heart-wrench of theee Horny Boys, Theee Retail Simpletones bring you this 82.5 % Total Punk din!

What if the Velvet Underground had written ‘Wooly Bully’ and Sam The Sham ‘Sister Ray?' If Ron House picked up some bongos and joined CCR or If Half Japanese and Hasil Adkins started a Meters cover band? This is the scrap yard of the Retail Simp's mind.

"Skronky, funky, punky, derelict rock ‘n’ roll — I don’t have any proof that Montreal’s The Retail Simps are America’s happiest garage punk band, but they certainly sound like they’re having the best time" - Spin